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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Are kids of undocum parents more empathetic than kids with doc parents, & what does that mean for how they develop politically? @linettesanchez.bsky.social intuits, yes, bc living in legal precarity gives perspective, understanding of other oppressed groups #WeArePRIEC @ricepolisci.bluesky.social

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Immigrant advocacy orgs DEPOLITICIZE if chance of resource loss SophiaCosta says not so fast! Deep engagement w Chicagoland leaders shows — especially for non professionalized grassroots — funding loss decouples work from constraints of fed gov sponsorship #WeArePRIEC @ricepolisci.bluesky.social

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Day 2 of #WeArePRIEC @ricepolisci.bsky.social @mfroman.bsky.social @robertocarlos.bsky.social argue motive to migrate explains variation in host country political integration IV design using age of arrival helps uncover econ-motivated migrants invest less emotionally in host than home country

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

How are citizens made? @robertocarlos.bsky.social convinces us to account for a growing share of info brokers, concentrated in immigrant (proximate) communities, who reveal some adults do change, some children do the socializing in their home. #WeArePRIEC @ricepolisci.bluesky.social

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Some are low/high empaths for all; some reserve empathy for ingroup leaving none for outgroups Does parochial empathy explain democracy, citizenship views? HannahPaul finds surprise: more parochial empathy —> being US-born matters LESS as citizen factor. #WeArePRIEC @ricepolisci.bluesky.social

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

With SCOTUS decisions permitting racial profiling by police, how does Latino animus relate to legitimacy of the Court? @alexbadas.bsky.social & @llopez.bsky.social probe how animus based attitudes produce ambivalence in attitudes towards the Supreme Court. #WeArePRIEC @ricepolisci.bluesky.social

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We know maj group people policy views trace to political values. We know less how values work in inter-minority dynamics Using survey data UK & US @neemabegum.bluesky.social & @tanikar.bluesky.social find anti-blackness + econ conservatism drives BLM views #WeArePRIEC @ricepolisci.bluesky.social

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Let’s talk about who changes their race & why? Turns out 1+ in 10 do so; measurement error can’t explain this away. Chris Flores (chris-flor.github.io) leverages n=16K panel data finds fluidity of racial self classification driven by independents & moderates #WeArePRIEC @ricepolisci.bsky.social

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Ever wondered if politics gets under the skin? @ricepolisci.bsky.social alum, Hawaii Pacific U Prof Ngoc Phan lifts the voices of native elder leaders resisting colonialism. Reports elder activism drains health, BUT motive to champion next gen Hawaiians keeps them invigorated. #WeArePRIEC

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

First up on the program: @mjstrawbridge.bsky.social & @marcelrommel.bsky.social & @stephanieternullo.bsky.social unpack the Black partisan-ideology paradox. Use big data + IV design and find racial segregation undercuts ideological partisan sorting. #WeArePRIEC @ricepolisci.bsky.social

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Jessica Cobian @jessicacobian.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

UCLA representing at PRIEC 🐻 @priec.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

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Iris Acquarone @ietchacq.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Another @priec.bsky.social on the books! Thanks to the UCSB hosts, the PRIEC community, and @quicopedraza.bsky.social for continually pushing us forward. Always: interesting & exciting research constructive feedback engaged audiences stimulating conversations fun socials Host one! Come to the next!

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

13. Spillover of Hostile Media Frames of Asian Countries into American Public's Opinions of Asian Groups Jialing Zhou, UC Merced Q: when media says China, Japan is a threat, how much does that shape non-Asian views of people from those places? A: yes on China coverage, not so much for Japan #PRIEC

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

12. How much Race Matters: Impact of News Media for Attitudes about Migrants Guadalupe Madrigal, UCSB Argues: support for policy that benefits migrants traces to media coverage Finds: racial resentment appears to drive policy attitudes especially when media makes migrant adults more visible #PRIEC

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

11. Media Context of Reception: Intergroup Symbolic Environments & Migration Muniba Saleem & Ismaharif Ismail, UCSB Q: does negative media of minorities process diff for maj & min groups? A: for maj group -> support for policy harmful to Muslims; min group -> less gov trust #PRIEC

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This! This right here is what sets our research community apart. “We rescue ourselves with love and integrity by investing in our ourselves & our needs!” -Prof. Lorrie Frasure, UCLA The CMPS team hyping the value of this cooperative crowd-sourcing, big samples of subgroups data source. #PRIEC

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

10. Exclusion in Political Polling, Voter Demobilization: Case of AsianAms Nathan Chan, LMU & Joyce Nguy, UCLA Finds: Asian Americans are largely excluded from analysis in political polling election reports & exposure to these exclusionary reports lowers their likelihood of voter engagement #PRIEC

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

9. Immigration-Based Voting Among Latinos 2016, 2020 Elections Juan Espinoza (undergrad) & Jason Morin, CSU Northridge Q: does immig linked fate hold up for Latinos controlling for PID? A: Kinda, still need account cross-racial mobilization, compare diff options voters face on ballot #PRIEC

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

8. Running in Context: Marginalization, PolAmbition, & Candidate Emergence Iris Acquarone, ASU Argues: election context excluding marginalized people activates latent pol ambition, but mobilization needs substance Test: surveyExp show salient marginalization + aim for inclusion —> run4office #PRIEC

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

7. When Exclusion Mobilizes: Institutional Design, Collective Action, & Pol Participation under Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Sonja Castaneda Dower, UChicago Q: How to pol voice when institutional channels are closed? A: Exclusion rechannels pol effort to consolidate alt institutions #PRIEC

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

6. Normative Expectations Prompting Color-Conscious & Color-Blind Mobilization Mckenzie Bennet, NotreDame Q: What are the predictors of White mobilization for racial justice? A: Racial socialization #PRIEC

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

5. Senators Good, Senate Bad: Institutional Design & Unequal Representation in Congress G. Agustin Markarian, LoyolaUChicago Q: Does the House represent less powerful groups better than the Senate? If so, why? A: The Senate is less representatively equal chamber. The filibuster explains why. #PRIEC

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

4. Racial Comparability in Authoritarianism Scales Bang Zheng, UTAustin Q: do black-white diffs in auth scales reflect true diffs in latent auth dispositions or meas non-equivalence item function? A: correcting meas diffs, blacks score higher underlying auth. B & W respondents see items similarly

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

3. Variations in perception of antisemitism among the American public. Bai Linh Hoang & Josh Slatter, UT Arlington RQ: Does nationality background of student criticizing state of Israel predict perceptions of antisemitic speech? Or, support / opposition to US government action toward the protester?

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

2. Pierce Christofferson, UCSB “Fentanyl & Fear: Public Perceptions of the Opioid Crisis and Undocumented Immigrants in the Western United States.” Does opioid concern predict human smuggling concern? A: Yes, and, survey exp shows differences rooted in partisan-identity & racial-identity. #PRIEC

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

1. Effects of Humorous Counterspeech on Attitudes Towards Undoc Immigrants Hyojin Lee & Kanu Pandey use survey exp to show humor disrupts anti-immigrant views & reduces support for anti-immig policy. Humor stalls online cruelty by activating moral outrage among pro-imm viewers. #PRIEC

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Big thank you upfront to the hosts of PRIEC @UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Political Science Professors Pei-te Lien, Christopher Parker, AJ Rice, Alfredo Gonzalez, and Raymond Orr, thank you for organizing, securing sponsorship, and hosting PRIEC

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Boom! Kicking off PRIEC @UCSB! Grab the program from www.priec.org Or from the homepage of the UCSB Political Science department homepage docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Grab the program from the QR or visit www.priec.org, or the UCSB Pooitical science home page:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18oWjYuDbNrRTtvjPycLd9eEhqtDb4Qn-/mobilebasic

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

PRIEC Fans! 📣 @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social is hosting PRIEC on ✨Friday, May 8th✨ For more information, including the fantastic lineup, please visit: polsci.ucsb.edu/news/priec-c... RSVP to attend by Tuesday, April 21st.

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Do experiences with authoritarianism in the home country leave signatures on newcomers’ attitudes once they arrive? Cookie Kim theorizes an authoritarian regime legacy traces to Asian Americans immigrants, not so much Latinos. And, that influence thins out fast for 2nd Gen. #ASUPRIEC

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

We know parent political socialization matters for partisan identity development. HopeGomez calls for conceptually distinguishing clarity from strength parent socialization features. Key finds: low clarity of parent pid —> higher non-identifiers, strong parent parent id —> strong PiD. #ASUPRIEC

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Our imagination of borders often elevates browness. Katie Clone refocuses symbolic bordering to whiteness by scrutinizing text from CNN and The Hill that addresses US refugee admission proposals. Key insight: there is a critical coverage of the cap for its whiteness “bordering practices”

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

How might union representation shape views regarding racial inequities in education? Adriel Bustillos reasons that perception of representation by unions may create support of egalitarian and equitable policy impacts especially in realms outside of economic and political life.

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Why might corporations wade into politics of racialized issues? Ananya Hariharan teaches that firms have incentive to respond to employees, sorted as issue publics, even when doing so is unrelated to firms bottom line Tests if firms withhold donations to pols who back Jan6 insurrectionists 1/2

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Kicking off the #ASUPRIEC program is ASU undergrad María Blandón. Argument: pol knowledge research lacks theory, measures of know how relevant in street politics, like ICE ambushing people en route to school, work, church, or home. Blandón shares new metric of Knowledge Your Rights Literacy 1/2

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

It’s that time!! #ASUPRIEC, Tempe , AZ. We’ll post highlights of presentations from the program. Shout out to team @asuclapr.bsky.social at @arizonastateuni.bsky.social who organized a great program and a roundtable on redistricting & elections.

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Jessica Cobian @jessicacobian.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Had a great time presenting and learning from colleagues at @priec.bsky.social Thanks @dadakim.bsky.social and @quicopedraza.bsky.social for organizing PRIEC’s 20th anniversary🌟

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Ángel Saavedra @polpsychangel.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

PRIEC in SoCal. Wonderful colleagues, interesting new research, and of course, the views and cuisines that SoCal has to offer.

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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Whoever took these candid photos deserves a raise. Thank you, @priec.bsky.social, for capturing so much of our 20th anniversary celebration conference. Excited for all of the other PRIECs this anniversary year!!!

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

PRIEC is now on Bluesky! 💙💛. Be sure to follow!

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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

It was exhilarating celebrating 20 years of PRIEC! 🎊

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Upshot: lithium mining can generate environmental damage, at great cost to nearby Native and other marginalized communities—some of which are already suffering from the harms from the mining other minerals. Needless to say, Christian is great, and all faults in this project are due to me.

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

TBC, the issue isn’t NIMBYism by Native and other marginalized communities. The issue is NIMBYism by comfortable communities who have the power to shove mining into someone else’s yard.

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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

Mai Do presenting "Framing the Fourteenth: How Frames Shape
Public Opinion on Birthright Citizenship co-authored with Joo, Pitzer; and Jenn Merolla, UCR.

Minhye Joo, Pitzer presenting "Framing the Fourteenth: How Frames Shape Public Opinion on Birthright Citizenship co-authored with Mai Do , UCR and Jenn Merolla, UCR.

Mai Do, UCR; Minhye Joo, Pitzer; handling Q&A like a boss!

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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

Professor Maricruz Osorio (Bentley U), presenting, "Playing State Politics: How Immigrant Organizations Respond to State Governments"

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

"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

Professor Adrian Felix, UC Riverside, standing at the front of a room behind a lectern, presenting "Biographies of Removal: The Faces of
Deracination," co-authored work with UCR graduate student Jenni Martinez.

UCR graduate student Jenni Martinez, standing at the front of a room behind a lectern, presenting "Biographies of Removal: The Faces of
Deracination," co-authored work with Professor Adrian Felix, UC Riverside.

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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

Taft Crowley UC Santa Barbara standing in front of room presenting, "From Sugar Rush to Land Bust: How chronic disease burdens contribute to landlessness and migration". Title slide.

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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

Ayse Busra Topal, UC Riverside standing at the front of the room like a boss presenting the paper, "Emotional Reactions to Islamophobia and the
Political Participation of Muslims"

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