Immigration documentation statuses evoke racialized faceism in mental representations.
Colorism
Face representation
Illegalization
Immigration
Racialization
Reverse correlation
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 05 2024
09 05 2024
Historique:
received:
01
04
2023
accepted:
02
05
2024
medline:
10
5
2024
pubmed:
10
5
2024
entrez:
9
5
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
U.S. immigration discourse has spurred interest in characterizing who illegalized immigrants are or perceived to be. What are the associated visual representations of migrant illegality? Across two studies with undergraduate and online samples (N = 686), we used face-based reverse correlation and similarity sorting to capture and compare mental representations of illegalized immigrants, native-born U.S. citizens, and documented immigrants. Documentation statuses evoked racialized imagery. Immigrant representations were dark-skinned and perceived as non-white, while citizen representations were light-skinned, evaluated positively, and perceived as white. Legality further differentiated immigrant representations: documentation conjured trustworthy representations, illegality conjured threatening representations. Participants spontaneously sorted unlabeled faces by documentation status in a spatial arrangement task. Faces' spatial similarity correlated with their similarity in pixel luminance and "American" ratings, confirming racialized distinctions. Representations of illegalized immigrants were uniquely racialized as dark-skinned un-American threats, reflecting how U.S. imperialism and colorism set conditions of possibility for existing representations of migrant illegalization.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38724676
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-61203-2
pii: 10.1038/s41598-024-61203-2
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
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Pagination
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Organisme : Society for Personality and Social Psychology
ID : Inside the Panel Grant
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© 2024. The Author(s).
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