Social Worker' Perceptions of Structural Inequality and Immigrant Threat
Which immigrant group was seen as the greatest threat?
Undocumented immigrants
What two frameworks does the author describe for categorizing immigrants?
Legality frame and Racial frame
LaCrit is an extension of
Critical Race Theory
Black-White binary
People with low-wage jobs (jobs that do not allow working from home), many whom were Indigenous people, Latinos, and African Americans, were more likely than whites to face exposure
How was denying structural inequality related to immigrant threat?
It was linked to higher perceptions of immigrant threat.
What is Proposition 187?
A CA state ballot proposal that passed in 1994. Proposition 187 declared unauthorized immigrants ineligible for public benefits and services and required all public employees to report anyone they suspected might be undocumented.
Characterized by an "intense opposition" to an internal minority on the ground that its foreign (i.e. "un-American) connections. Central concept among LaCrit scholars as form of discrimination
Nativism
Term for Spanish colonialism in Latin America and the American Imperialism over the past two centuries in communities in the Spanish Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico explaining structural displacement.
Double-colonization
What percentage of social workers believed immigrants have the same opportunities as US-born citizens?
About 33%
How did immigration advocacy and policy differ between Arizona and California in the 1990s?
Arizona: less solidarity between advocacy groups, stricter immigrant welfare policy
California: more diverse advocacy groups and collaboration, expansive and lenient welfare
Critique for CRT which positions racial minorities (i.e., Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans) who do not fit the black-white binary have been forced "to see themselves as adjuncts of whites, or as defective copies of blacks"
Black-White binary
Because the decennial census splits Hispanic ethnicity from race, roughly 45% of Latinos select this racial category, whether they are white-passing or simply uncertain where else to turn.
Census-white Latinos