Replication Data for: Alien Citizens and the Canonical Immigrant: Do Stigmatized Attributes Affect Latina/o Judgment about Discrimination?

Negative elite and news media attention to Latino-relevant issues, particularly undocumented immigration has dramatically increased in recent years, potentially stigmatizing attributes of Latinos such as immigration status and language use. Concomitantly, immigration policy changes were leading to widespread arrests and deportation of many Latinos. Herein we ask two questions: first, to what extent do Latinos perceive and experience discrimination? Second, to what extent do immigration status, generational status, and language use moderate beliefs about discrimination? Using Pew National Survey of Latinos data, we find that Latino beliefs about the problem of discrimination is a decreasing function of “proximity” to the “canonical immigrant”–defined here as first generation immigrants who are Spanish-language dominant. Further, we demonstrate that reported rates of victimization due to discrimination exhibit no clear pattern and are flat over time. We conclude by demonstrating that discrimination beliefs have significant implications for systemic trust, anxiety, and policy preferences. We make use of Stata and R. The ominbus do file \"AJPS_contrast_combined.do\" must be executed to generate numerous output datasets (n=385) to produce figures in main paper and supplemental paper. All output data sets are saved as State v. 12 for easy ingestion into R. After the omnibus file is executed, individual R files will reproduce figures in main paper and supplemental appendix. See README for extensive details.