Abstract
The authors examined political candidates' social stereotypes of Mexican immigrants in mainstream media accounts. From those popular themes, they formed semantic differential scales, which they administered to participants (N = 201) with 1 of 4 scenarios describing an illegal immigrant: of Mexican vs. English Canadian descent and with vs. without several parking tickets. Consistent with contemporary theories of prejudice (J. F. Dovidio & S. L. Gaertner, 1996), the participants indicated the greatest agreement with the pejorative themes when the immigrant described was of Mexican descent and had accumulated parking tickets. Psychologically, the parking tickets served as a nonethnic rationale for discriminating against that ethnic group. The authors discuss the social and public policy implications of Mexican immigration as a political phenomenon.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 701-712 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Journal of Social Psychology |
| Volume | 142 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1 2002 |
Keywords
- English Canadian immigrants
- Immigration
- Mexican immigrants
- Politics
- Social stereotypes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Psychology
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