“Bad hombres” at the Southern US border? White nationalism and the perceived dangerousness of immigrants
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2020
Publication Title
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology
DOI
10.1177/0004865820969760
ISSN
1837-9273
Abstract
As a candidate and as president, Donald Trump heightened the salience of immigration, portraying those crossing the nation’s Southern border as “bad hombres” and advocating building a wall blocking their access to the United States from Mexico. Based on a 2019 MTurk study of 465 White adults, the current study found that a clear majority of respondents rejected this stereotype of Southern immigrants as “bad hombres,” judging them to be just as law-abiding as Americans. Importantly, however, the analysis revealed that two innovative measures—Hispanic resentment and, in particular, White nationalism—were consistently related to perceptions of immigrants as criminogenic. Given the growing demographic diversity of the United States, future research should consider the increasing influence of racial/ethnic resentment and White group identity on public opinions about immigration and other justice issues.
Recommended Citation
Kulig, Teresa C., Amanda Graham, Francis T. Cullen, Alex R. Piquero, Murat Haner.
2020.
"“Bad hombres” at the Southern US border? White nationalism and the perceived dangerousness of immigrants."
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
doi: 10.1177/0004865820969760
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/crimjust-criminology-facpubs/272
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