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Is racial animus sensitive to social shocks, or is it a disposition that resists change? The early COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by incidents of prejudice and discrimination against the Asian American community in the United States. We investigate whether comparable shifts in public opinion also occurred during this time using survey data fielded through 2019…
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Is civic disengagement correlated across institutions? One case of this question is a long-observed “secular voting gap” where religiously unaffiliated Americans are less likely to vote than their affiliated counterparts. This work often uses self-reports or exit polls that cannot measure variation within the unaffiliated. Using an improved measure of validated voter turnout in four…
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Immigrant integration scholars increasingly emphasize the “local” level, yet most analyses of multilevel integration governance focus on municipal or other governmental actors. However, in the U.S. resettlement program, local governments have little influence on refugee integration, as resettlement services are provided by contracted non-governmental organizations. To understand local integration in this context, I analyze local…
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The new program might strengthen personal connections to refugees, but history shows there are potential downsides as well.
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The headlines told the story. Following the inauguration of former president Donald Trump, articles with titles such as “White Evangelicals Have Turned on Refugees” and “The Group Least Likely to Think the U.S. Has a Responsibility to Accept Refugees? Evangelicals” appeared across news outlets, as multiple journalists and scholars attempted to explain “Why White Evangelicals…
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Politicized claims that Americans will be placed at risk by welcoming refugees are certainly not new. Yet such assertions lack evidence.
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Approaching the 20th anniversary of the attacks, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center faces a reckoning.
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The Islamic Liberation Reading List aims to offer both a contribution and a critique to help readers grapple with our contemporary global crises, during where movements animated by racial, economic, gender, and environmental injustice (among others) have mobilized in the pursuit of a better world. The purpose of compiling this reading list is to explore…
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In response to COVID-19, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order announcing that all businesses except those declared “essential” must shut down their in-person operations. My dad’s job did not make the cut. He is a senior, commutes to work via public transportation, and has medical complications, all of which make him particularly…
