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Alexandra Filindra
Researcher at University of Illinois at Chicago
Publications - 49
Citations - 598
Alexandra Filindra is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Prejudice (legal term) & Immigration. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 27 publications receiving 446 citations. Previous affiliations of Alexandra Filindra include Brown University & University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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Racial Resentment and Whites’ Gun Policy Preferences in Contemporary America
TL;DR: The authors found that racial resentment is a statistically significant and substantively important predictor of white opposition to gun control, and that exposure to the prime suppressed support for gun control compared to the control, conditional upon a respondent's level of racial resentment.
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The Power of Context: State-Level Policies and Politics and the Educational Performance of the Children of Immigrants in the United States
TL;DR: Filindra, Blanding, and Garcia Coll as mentioned in this paper found a strong positive association between the immigrant inclusion in state welfare programs and high school graduation rates for the children of immigrants, and suggested that multiculturalism policies, targeting racial...
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Immigrant Social Policy in the American States: Race Politics and State TANF and Medicaid Eligibility Rules for Legal Permanent Residents
TL;DR: This paper examined differences in the drivers of state Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Medicaid immigrant eligibility policies, determined in the wake of the 1996 Welfare Reform, and found that differences in incentive structures of the two programs may affect the way race politics influence each.
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Testing Theories of Gun Policy Preferences Among Blacks, Latinos, and Whites in America*
Alexandra Filindra,Noah Kaplan +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that racial prejudice is negatively correlated with support for gun control among whites and Latinos, while one type of racial prejudice, racial resentment, increased support for firearm control among blacks.
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Together in Good Times and Bad? How Economic Triggers Condition the Effects of Intergroup Threat
TL;DR: This paper found that a perceived increase in the presence of immigrants in the community positively correlates with restrictionist immigration policy preferences (in this case support for Arizona's anti-immigration law), but only when people are pessimistic about the future of the state's economy.