Forum: Civic Resilience or Erosion? A Look at Immigrant Responses to New Risks and Disappointments Following the 2016 Election

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Date(s) - 09/23/2018
9:00 am - 10:00 am

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UUCTC

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Speaker: James McCann

As a candidate for president, Donald Trump pledged to reduce immigration to the U.S., roll back protections for undocumented immigrants, and build a wall along the southern border, among other policies.  As president, he has sought to implement this exceptionally harsh anti-immigrant program.  In this talk, I will discuss how immigrants themselves have responded to the new political climate.  Have risks and disappointments led to a general erosion of civic attitudes and aspirations in the United States?  Or are there signs of civic resilience in the face of strong political headwinds?

 

James A. McCann conducts research on public opinion, electoral processes, participation, and representation in the United States and cross-nationally. His work has appeared in many leading scholarly journals, including the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, the American Journal of Political Science, and the British Journal of Political Science. He is the co-author, with Jorge Domínguez, of Democratizing Mexico: Public Opinion and Electoral Choices (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Global Policy Research Institute. He is a Principal Investigator, with Michael Jones-Correa, of the “2012 Latino Immigrant National Election Study” (LINES). Professor, Graduate Placement Director Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder M.A. University of Colorado, Boulder B.A. Illinois State University

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