“Don’t Let the Illegals Vote!”: The Myths of Illegal Latino Voters and Voter Fraud in Contested Local Immigrant Integration
This paper analyzes how the belief and fear by mostly older, white voters, politicians, and poll workers that “illegal” Latino immigrants were seeking to vote in local elections led to stigmatization of and discrimination against some Latino citizen voters in Port Chester, New York. Stoked by and cl...
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| Language: | English |
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Russell Sage Foundation
2017-07-01
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| Series: | RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.4.09 |