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Gracias, Ivy 🙏🏼

Deep gratitude for the Immigrant Worker Project (IWP) of Canton, Ohio and collaborators: Michele Leiby, Nancy Powers, Robert Gitter, Dosinda Alvite, and Jeff Stewart. Stay tuned for our edited book project which we hope to publish soon! 8/x

This paper advances the concepts of political socialization and cultural citizenship by including the unique experiences of undocumented Latinxs who continue to be subjected to racist rhetoric and discrimination. I hope you’ll read it! 7/x

The 2nd finding relates to cultural citizenship. Alejandra states that, “We’re ‘illegals,’ but we have rights! We don’t do anything bad, we’re simply working.” She (and others) interviewees called for basic rights to legal protections, respect, and dignity. 6/x

The title of the paper comes from an interview in which a Mexican im/migrant states that “Discrimination is rampant. Trump is the head of all this [situation of immigrants].” Alejandra (and others) assigned responsibility to Trump for the discrimination they faced in public. 5/x

Interview data from the 2018 Immigrant Worker Project Survey (IWPS), a community-based advocacy research project, shows how Latina/o immigrants’ critical interpretations of racist elite rhetoric & experiences with discrimination are a form of political socialization. 4/x

I argue that periods of elevated immigration enforcement and high-profile anti-immigrant rhetoric can catalyze expressions of Latinx cultural citizenship in which im/migrants of precarious statuses make rights claims and assert their belonging. 3/x

RQs: 1) how did the anti-Latinx/anti-im/migrant rhetoric of the first Trump Administration shape Latinx im/migrants’ political socialization? 2) How did this political socialization experience contribute to politicized group consciousness and cultural citizenship? 2/x

I haven’t yet had the pleasure of watching this show yet, but I support all of your endeavors! ::dale like::