Midwest Latino/a Caucus

MPSA Panel Presentations, April 2008

64-1 THE POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF LATINO IMMIGRATION
Friday, April 4 12:45pm
Chair: Eduardo Magalhaes III, Simpson College

Papers:

  • Latino Effect? Passing Tax and Bond Referenda in Illinois School Districts
    Are bond and tax referenda in Illinois more likely to be rejected in school districts with high concentrations of Latinos? This project investigates a Latino effect on district election outcomes.
    Mary E. M. McKillip, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Jorge Chapa, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Different Paths of Participation: The Role of Acculturation and Participation Among Latinos***
    This project explores how the likelihood and nature of Latino participation is influenced by objective constraints such as citizenship as well as by one's level of acculturation.
    Victoria Maria DeFrancesco Soto, Northwestern University
    Jennifer L. Merolla, Claremont Graduate University
    ***Winner of the best conference paper on Latino/a politics

  • Should I Stay or Should I Go? Attitudes Toward Immigration
    This research allows us to determine if and how the act of crossing the border and shifting from a potential migrant to an actual immigrant changes ones opinion of how the United States treats and welcomes immigrants.
    Alejandro Espinoza, Texas A&M University
    Maria Escobar-Lemmon, Texas A&M University

  • Imported Political Baggage: The Role of Immigrants' Prior Socialization
    Using survey data this paper shows that Mexican immigrants' prior party ID plays a key role in their decision to become partisans in the US. It also explores the effects of prior ideology and trust on their behavior and attitudes once in America.
    Sergio C. Wals, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Discussant: Rene R. Rocha, University of Iowa

64-2 LATINO RACIAL REPRESENTATION AND IDENTITY
Saturday, April 5 2:45 pm
Chair: Eric Gonzalez Juenke, University of Colorado, Boulder

Papers:

  • Beyond Roll-Call Votes: Latino Representation in the 108th and 109th Sessions of the U.S. House of Representatives
    This paper examines member behavior in the 108th and 109th sessions of Congress on immigration, education and social security bills to assess whether Latino members offer a greater degree of representation for Latinos than non-Latino members.
    Sophia Jordan Wallace, Cornell University

  • The Discourse of Latino Identity: Racialization and Pan-Ethnicity
    I offer an alternative framework for understanding the pan-ethnic Latino identity-- as a discourse between racialization and political mobilization-- and will discuss the results from initial attempts to research pan-ethnicity using this framework.
    Rita A. B. Rico, University of California, Los Angeles

  • Alternative Styles of Latino Representation: A Case Study of California
    Studies of Latino representation generally focus on roll-call voting. This paper broadens our understanding to include aspects of home style. As such, it highlights different representational styles.
    Sally Friedman, SUNY, Albany

Discussant: Eric Gonzalez Juenke, University of Colorado, Boulder



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