Policies to encourage socio-political participation of Latinx immigrants in the United States heavily rely on the primacy of assimilation processes resulting from immigrants’ exposure to the American political system alone. However, this approach overlooks the potential layers of complexity fostered by pre-immigration factors and how these interact with immigrants’ experiences in the U.S. We conduct a multinomial logit analysis using data from the 2006 Latino National Survey and emergent research on the impact of pre-immigration experiences to determine what factors can both activate participation and be influenced by institutions and policy makers in the U.S. Though we find that low levels of socio-political participation among Latinx immigrants strongly correlate with low levels of pre-immigration participation, for the outlier cases we analyze what factors contribute to increase participation once in the U.S. Results demonstrate the need for political parties and organizations to increase the long-term investment in young Latinx immigrants.

鼓励拉丁裔移民在美国社会政治参与的政策在很大程度上取决于同化过程的首要性，这些过程是由于移民仅在美国政治体系中的影响而导致的。但是，这种方法忽略了移民前因素造成的潜在复杂性，以及这些因素如何与美国移民的经验相互作用。我们使用2006年拉丁美洲国家调查的数据和有关移民前影响的新兴研究进行了多项Logit分析。移民经验，以确定哪些因素既可以促进参与，又可以受到美国机构和政策制定者的影响。尽管我们发现拉丁裔移民中较低的社会政治参与度与较低的移民前参与度密切相关，