Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium
priec.bsky.social
Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium
@priec.bsky.social
An organizing and pipeline solution to enrich intellectual community for scholars & universities with limited resources

Please visit our homepage to know more: https://priec.org/
In "Framing the Fourteenth: How Frames Shape
Public Opinion on Birthright Citizenship" Mai Do,
UCR; Minhye Joo, Pitzer; & Jenn Merolla, UCR,
show elite framing that invokes "anchor babies" dampens public support for birthright citizenship. Negative framing moves GOPers most.

#UCRPRIEC20
October 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
We know that the incredible investment that community organizations provide includes facilitating civic engagement. @cruzita.bsky.social argues this investment facilitates courageous citizenship, whereby org interventions help people of vulnerable communities manage political risk.

#UCRPRIEC20
October 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"We are calling for attention to the full violence of deportations by taking serious the richness & complexity of stories using ethnographies & tools of critical inquiry."
~paraphrased concluding remarks by Jenny

"Biographies of Removal: The Faces of
Deracination" (Adrián Félix, UCR)

#UCRPRIEC20
October 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
What's going on in the Dakotas? Christian Castillo
UC Riverside presents work co-authored with @lauraevans.bsky.social

The politics of extractive markets gets even more complex when layering sovereignty.

"Green Mining: The Politics of Lithium and
Indigenous Peoples"

#UCRPRIEC20
October 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Here is a tricky public policy puzzle.

Taft Crowley, UCSB, explains how chronic disease burdens respond to global shifts in food production & food markets. Both drive surges in type 2 diabetes, & feed forward into material conditions shaping ability to pay for health care & migration.

#UCRPRIEC20
October 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Pushing what we know on emotional drivers of political participation, @abusrat.bsky.social, teaches us Muslim American mobilization is sensitive to different sources of Islamophobia.

"Emotional Reactions to Islamophobia and the
Political Participation of Muslims."

#UCRPRIEC20
October 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Flexing creative muscles, Nathan Chan (LMU) & Matthew Tokeshi (Williams College), advance the concept of "racial invisibility." For sure, the US hierarchy defined by race and nativity dimensions, but overlayed on both is variation in visibility.

#PRIECUCR20
October 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Linking racism, discrimination, & health, independent scholar Tandy Tillinghast, discusses how scholars can translate social science research to praxis.

Key to this: transdisciplinary participatory action research that center survivors in design, data collection, & analyses.
#PRIECUCR20
October 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
At the intersection of immigration politics & environmental politics, Sophia Tomany de Brito (UCSB), shows conservation appeals appear to be more of a booster than a bridge.

GOP & Dems electeds carefully position on conservation, but stay firm on partisan immigration positions. #PRIECUCR20
October 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Awash in plenty, @dadakim.bsky.social, Shaun Bowler, & the UCR crew coordinate us across 2 rooms

Panel 1B, @minhye.bsky.social & @jieunspark.bsky.social kick us off with "The Politics of Skin Tone: How Does Skin Tone Shape Political Identities and Attitudes?"

Answer: Your skin tone does matter!
October 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Congratulations @dadakim.bsky.social, Shaun Bowler, and the rest of the @ucrpolisci.bsky.social crew for organizing a terrific program!!
October 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Knock knock.

Who's there?

📣 PRIEC!

Where?

In Riverside, CA with
@ucrpolisci.bsky.social to celebrate 20 years of PRIEC where it all started!!

#PRIECUCR20
October 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM