When local governments neglect public services or community priorities, how do concerned
citizens respond? In The Help-Yourself City, Gordon Douglas looks closely at people who …

Though much attention has been given to the effect of ethnicity on perceptions of the police,
few studies had focused on Latino immigrants. Using research conducted in an immigrant …

Using data from a survey of 2004 Latinos in four urban counties in the USA, this paper
considers a question that has not been systematically investigated: how has increasing …

Social construction theory argues that public policy creates powerful feedback effects and
that groups burdened by policy feel alienated. We reevaluate this argument by examining …

This article seeks to understand how immigrants' premigration political socialization
experiences shape their views of the new polity, the extent to which this imported …

This study assesses preferences for descriptive representation among Latinos and Asian
Americans. The findings are consistent across data sets, measurement strategies, and …

The day-to-day behaviors of undocumented immigrants are significantly affected when local
law enforcement officials do the work of federal immigration enforcement. One such …

In 2012, President Obama deferred the deportation of qualified undocumented youth with
his policy of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals forever changing the lives of the …

This mixed-methods study contributes to the emerging literature on immigration and law
enforcement practices by measuring variation in attitudes toward the police across first-and …

The 2016 presidential election was an unprecedented event for minority groups, and
especially for Latinos, who were a political target of candidate Donald Trump's campaign …