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How does contact with nonnatives affect immigration-related fears? While there is strong general support for the argument that intergroup contact decreases intergroup prejudice and fear, previous research arrives at mixed conclusions when applying this argument to the study of natives' attitudes toward immigrants. We propose that people's preexisting partisan affinities condition the effect of contact, which may explain the mixed findings. Building on the literature on motivated reasoning, we argue that contact reduces immigration-related threats among leftist voters, but have a threat-increasing or no effect among rightist voters. We find support for our argument using original surveys conducted in two very different contexts: the United States and Germany.

Cover -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: Arab Amairka -- 1 The Syrian Pacific -- 2 Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon -- 3 Meeting at the Mahrajan -- 4 Fragments of the Past, Identities of the Present -- 5 Palimpsests in Iconic California -- CONCLUSION: Mestizaje in Arab American Families -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This article reexamines the healthy immigrant effect in mental health—as measured by psychological distress—by incorporating the modifying roles of the level of economic development of origin-country and life-stage at arrival among a sample of immigrants to Toronto, Canada—as compared to the native-born. The analytic sample included 2,157 adults, of which 31 percent were immigrants. Multivariate results point to a healthy immigrant effect in distress, but only among immigrants from less developed origin-countries who migrated to Canada in mid-adulthood (between 25 and 34 years of age). Further, this health advantage deteriorates with increase in length of residence only among this group of migrants, in large part because of an increase in chronic stressors. Immigrants from more developed origin-countries do not experience a healthy immigrant effect, as compared to the native-born, nor an increase in distress with tenure in Canada, irrespective of the life-stage at immigration.

This volume addresses the question of migration in Europe. It is concerned with the extent to which racism and anti-immigration discourse has been to some extent normalised and 'democratised' in European and national political discourses. Mainstream political parties are espousing increasingly coercive policies and frequently attempting to legitimate such approaches via nationalist-populist slogans and coded forms of racism. Identity, Belonging and Migration shows that that liberalism is not enough to oppose the disparate and diffuse xenophobia and racism faced by many migrants today and calls

In an examination of the development of immigration controls in Canada in the early twentieth century, it is argued that the introduction of medical inspection can be understood as part of a broader shift in social policy & programs. The two are connected here within the framework of Marxist state theory, which understands social policy as the state regulation of the social reproduction of the working class. The control of immigration through the medical inspection of newcomers at the border was seen by policymakers as a complement to new programs that aimed to improve the physical, mental, & moral health of the national population. Government documents & public health journals are examined to show the continuity between the introduction of medical inspection & new public health programs designed to improve the condition of slum dwellers. AA