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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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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

Key finding: Firms with more conservative and diverse worker bases were more likely to pledge to withhold contributions to election objectors and donated more to those politicians after the insurrection.

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

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

Matthew Tokeshi (Williams College) and Nathan Chan (LMU) presenting, "Racial Invisibility in American Public Opinion" at the PRIEC 20th anniversary at UC Riverside. Title slide

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

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

Photo of independent scholar, Tandy Tillinghast, Western Oregon, standing at the front of the room before title screen of presentation, "Triangulating Racism, Isolation, and health: Bridging Frameworks and Interventions for Survivors."

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

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

Photo of Sophia Tomany de Brito, UC Santa Barbara, presenting, "Protecting the 'Home Land': The Use of Nature Conservation Appeals in the Politics of U.S. Immigration Enforcement"

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

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!

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

Congratulations @dadakim.bsky.social, Shaun Bowler, and the rest of the @ucrpolisci.bsky.social crew for organizing a terrific program!!

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

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

Photo of UCR Professor Kim Yi Dionne, co-host of the PRIEC at UC Riverside, taking a selfie with ASU Professor Francisco Pedraza in front of the PRIEC pipe and banner.

Photo of Professor Kim Yi Dionne giving welcoming remarks for the 20th anniversary of PRIEC at UC Riverside. Standing at the front of the room facing guests.

Photo of registration area for PRIEC at UC Riverside. Professor Maricruz Osorio (Bentley), Professor Shaun Bowler (UC Riverside), and Dean & Professor Melissa Michelson (Menlo College).

Registration table for the PRIEC at UC Riverside, celebrating the 20th anniversary of PRIEC.

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