Charlie V. Morgan

Public Awareness of Human Trafficking in Europe: How Concerned Are European Citizens?

This study examined the relationship between a European Union (EU) citizens’ degrees of concern toward human trafficking and demographic characteristics, attitudes toward immigrants, and proximity variables (such as geographic region, the number of immigrants, and the percentage of immigrants within their country) using the Eurobarometer 2003 (N = 15,650), which surveyed participants in 15 EU countries. A regression analysis found that older citizens, female citizens, citizens with strong attitudes toward immigrants, citizens who lived in countries that were main routes of illegal immigration, and citizens who lived in regions with more immigrants show more concern about trafficking.

Jobs, Flags, and Laws How Interests, Culture, and Values Explain Recruitment into the Utah Minuteman Project

Immigration is currently a combustible social issue in the United States, contributing to national political polarization. The Minuteman Project is one prominent group shaping contemporary immigration politics. This study explores the Utah chapter of this movement and explains why people join. In social movement terms, we highlight which grievances—material, cultural, or value-oriented—predict movement recruitment. This research incorporates a range of qualitative data: in-depth interviews, primary documents, and observation. Our fundamental finding is that contrary to a dominant belief, material interests are not driving anti-immigrant activism. Instead, we find that this activism grows out of the intersection of value-oriented and cultural grievances. Integrating four bodies of sociological theory, we find that values and culture—more than material interests—motivate people to become members of this important social movement.

Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries How Asian Immigrant Backgrounds Shape Gender Attitudes About Interethnic Partnering

How do gender attitudes affect second-generation Asian Americans’ decisions to enter into interethnic heterosexual partnerings? A grounded theory approach was applied to 88 in-depth interviews, which represent a subsample of the respondents from Wave III of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study. I find that second-generation Asian women seek relationships across ethnic and racial lines as a way to resist patriarchal and gendered attitudes that they perceive are held by men from their own co-ethnic group and often stereotype Asian American men in the process. Cohabitation was also an important aspect of interethnic partnering: Whereas men cohabitated across ethnic and racial lines but typically married co-ethnics (in a process I term imagining the future), women were more likely to resist co-ethnic relationships and crossed ethnic and racial boundaries regardless of the type of relationship.

Inheriting the city: the children of immigrants come of age

endangerment are often the same, or very nearly the same, as those describing the languages of wider communication (i.e. the very ones that are replacing the truly endangered languages) is a key focus of the volume. A prime example of this coopting of language is provided by Ronald Schmidt (‘Defending English in an Englishdominant world: The ideology of the ‘‘Official English’’ movement in the United States’). Pointing out that English is the dominant language of the country and not under any real kind of threat, Schmidt explores the rationale of the Official English (or English Only) movement and the high level of emotions behind it. Although I have highlighted only some of the contributions to this volume, they are all interesting, well written and well argued. Taken individually, they provide nice vignettes of individual case studies. But the real contribution of these papers comes when they are taken together, as they present a complex, multifaceted view of the discourse of endangerment and language ideology in modern times.