Tolerance toward Immigrants as a Dimension of Cosmopolitanism: Explaining Attitudes toward Immigrants in Houston

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dc.contributor.authorParedes, Cristian L.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-05T21:03:56Zen_US
dc.date.available2019-03-05T21:03:56Zen_US
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this study, I argue that attitudes toward immigrants in the U.S. are particularly different in metropolitan areas characterized by ethno-racial diversity brought about by immigration in order to explain tolerance toward immigrants as a dimension of cosmopolitanism. I further examine whether the influences of individual and contextual characteristics on attitudes toward immigrants in Houston, the metropolitan research setting, reveal how its inhabitants have gradually been accepting their complex foreign diversity as normal. Using data from the Houston Area Survey, I found that the proportion of immigrants in communities is directly associated with tolerance, that white-collar workers are not more tolerant than non-white-collar workers, and that the effect of education on tolerance toward immigrants is not always positive. The conceptualization of tolerance toward immigrants as a dimension of cosmopolitanism serves to explain tolerance not only as a reflection of public opinion, but as a disposition toward the acceptance of diversity in receiving societies.en_US
dc.identifier.citationParedes, Cristian L.. "Tolerance toward Immigrants as a Dimension of Cosmopolitanism: Explaining Attitudes toward Immigrants in Houston." (2015) Rice University and Kinder Institute for Urban Research: https://doi.org/10.25611/559b-yd5q.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalParedes_WP06en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25611/559b-yd5qen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/105239en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherKinder Institute for Urban Researchen_US
dc.rightsCopyright © 2015 by Cristian L. Paredes. All rights reserved.en_US
dc.titleTolerance toward Immigrants as a Dimension of Cosmopolitanism: Explaining Attitudes toward Immigrants in Houstonen_US
dc.typeWorking paperen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
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