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Pessimists, Optimists, and Skeptics: The Consequences of Transnational Ties for Latino Immigrant Naturalization

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  • Sarah Allen Gershon
  • Adrian D. Pantoja

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type="main"> Central to current debates over immigration is the impact of transnational ties on immigrant political incorporation in the United States. Some researchers believe these ties hinder incorporation, while others have found a positive relationship between these variables, and yet other scholars have found that transnational connections exert no significant impact on immigrant behavior in the United States. We test these competing hypotheses in an attempt to resolve this scholarly debate. We rely on data from the 2006 Latino National Survey and use logistic regression to test the impact of transnational ties on immigrant political incorporation (via naturalization). Transnational ties positively impact immigrants’ orientations toward citizenship and eventual naturalization. Immigrant political incorporation is not a unidirectional process where immigrant engagement in the United States increases with disengagement in the ancestral homeland. Rather, Latino immigrants with ties to their ancestral homelands are more likely to desire and seek out U.S. citizenship.

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  • Sarah Allen Gershon & Adrian D. Pantoja, 2014. "Pessimists, Optimists, and Skeptics: The Consequences of Transnational Ties for Latino Immigrant Naturalization," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 95(2), pages 328-342, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:socsci:v:95:y:2014:i:2:p:328-342
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    1. Adrian D. Pantoja & Sarah Allen Gershon, 2006. "Political Orientations and Naturalization Among Latino and Latina Immigrants," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 87(5), pages 1171-1187, December.
    2. Matt A. Barreto & Ricardo Ramírez & Nathan D. Woods, 2005. "Are Naturalized Voters Driving the California Latino Electorate? Measuring the Effect of IRCA Citizens on Latino Voting," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 86(4), pages 792-811, December.
    3. Adrian D. Pantoja & Sarah Allen Gershon, 2006. "Political Orientations and Naturalization Among Latino and Latina Immigrants," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 87(s1), pages 1171-1187.
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