title: Immigration reform and the browning of America: tensions, conflicts and community instability in metropolitan Los Angeles.
abstract: "Tensions, conflicts, and community instability associated with heightened immigration--especially of nonwhite immigrant groups--threaten to balkanize America. This article highlights the root causes of the growing opposition to both immigrants and U.S.  immigration policy--the nativist backlash, presents a typology of the community-level conflicts that have arisen as a consequence of heightened immigration--legal and illegal--to the United States over the last 30 years, and outlines the conditions under which diversity can be brought to the forefront as one of society's strengths.... The 1992 Los Angeles County Social Survey (LACSS)...provides insights into the nature and magnitude of intergroup stereotyping and prejudice in a community in which large numbers of immigrants have settled."
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Farrell
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Guinn
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D001290:Attitude; D001519:Behavior; D002140:California; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005843:Geography; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011287:Prejudice; D011584:Psychology; D011639:Public Opinion; D011640:Public Policy; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012922:Social Change; D012940:Social Problems; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014481:United States
keywords: Americas; Attitude; Behavior; California; Community; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Geographic Factors; Immigrants; International Migration; Migrants; Migration; Migration Policy; North America; Northern America; Policy; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Policy; Psychological Factors; Public Opinion; Residence Characteristics; Social Change; Social Discrimination; Social Policy; Social Problems; Spatial Distribution; United States