A survey of prior research testing the threat and contact hypotheses uncovers a wide, often conflicting, range of conclusions regarding the influence of contexts on attitudes. Through a reanalysis (verification and replication) of publicly available data we test the threat/contact hypotheses by...

This paper focuses on the immigration-related demands currently being placed on local police in the United States, and the emergence of what we call a “multilayered jurisdictional patchwork” (MJP) of immigration enforcement. The evolving relationship between layers of government involved in...

We examine attempts by public officials and advocates in the Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan area to help integrate and empower Latino immigrants – socially, economically, and politically – in the face of an anti-immigrant political climate. We find that despite the emergence of a growing...