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National Identity and Attitudes towards Immigrants in the United States.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	National Identity and Attitudes towards Immigrants in the United States./
作者:	Hill, Amanda.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
面頁冊數:	206 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-04A.
標題:	Social work. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=22618656
ISBN:	9781687902825

National Identity and Attitudes towards Immigrants in the United States.
Hill, Amanda.

National Identity and Attitudes towards Immigrants in the United States. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 206 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Widener University, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

As of 2017, there were more than 44.5 million immigrants residing, both lawfully and unlawfully, in the United States (Migration Policy Institute [MPI], 2019). Understanding the attitudes of U.S. citizens towards immigrants, and whether these attitudes stem from national identity, is necessary because of the impact that attitudes can have on policy development and the subsequent national treatment of immigrants based on those policies. Taken together, existing literature suggested that U.S. national identity may comprise three separate elements: nativism, emotionality, and behavior. I used Gloria Anzaldua's interpretation of borderlands theory to frame my understanding of national identity. Using U.S. citizen response data from three waves of the National Identity module of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) from 1995, 2003, and 2013, I assessed the validity of a national identity scale, as well as the relationship between national identity and attitudes towards immigrants in these three separate time periods. Using factor analysis and a construct validity assessment, I examined whether a full set of ISSP items, or a subset of these, formed a valid measure of national identity for U.S. respondents. The results of the factor analysis indicated that the use of all items within a three-factor model was the best fit for the data in measuring the national identity construct. This multidimensional construct was confirmed by the analyses for each time period and for the three time periods combined. Following this initial analysis, I used multivariate linear regressions to address three specific research questions regarding the construct of national identity, attitudes towards immigrants, and changes across time among U.S. citizens. Findings indicated that there was a change in respondent perception of national identity across time, and that these perceptions of national identity were associated with respondent attitudes towards immigrants. Finally, findings also indicated that respondent scores on an emotionality-specific measure of national identity had a differential effect on respondents' attitudes towards immigrants in 2003 when compared to respondents in 2013, indicating a change in respondent attitudes towards immigrants across time. These findings could be utilized to inform the social work profession's response to exclusionary and discriminatory policies and practices regarding immigrants in the United States.

ISBN: 9781687902825Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Social work.
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