Few attempts have been made to examine the effects of perceived threats that immigrants pose to host society on young people’s preferences for restrictionist or lenient immigration policies. Moreover, the existing literature is scarce on whether such perceived threats mediate the relationship between previously identified demographic antecedents such as gender, race or age and preferences for certain immigration policies. To address these gaps, this study examines direct and mediating effects of perceived economic, cultural and security threats on preferences for lenient or restrictionist immigration policies. Using a sample college students' survey data (N = 604) on their attitudes towards immigration, our findings of logistic regression analysis show that the three dimensions of perceived threat were all positively associated with preference for hardline immigration policies. In addition, regardless of inclusion of perceived threats in the logistic model, being Republican was a consistent positive predictor of the hardline immigration agenda, while female was a consistent negative one. Finally, the results of path analysis of Structural Equation Modeling indicate mediating effects of cultural threat on the relationships between political affiliation (Republican and Independent) and race (Latino) and support for hardline immigration policies.

很少有人尝试检查移民对接纳社会构成的威胁威胁对年轻人偏爱限制性或宽容移民政策的偏爱。此外，现有文献缺乏关于这种可感知的威胁是否介导先前确定的人口统计先例（例如性别，种族或年龄）与某些移民政策偏好之间的关系的信息。为了解决这些差距，本研究研究了感知到的经济，文化和安全威胁对宽松或限制性移民政策的偏好的直接和中介影响。使用样本大学生对移民态度的调查数据（N = 604），我们的逻辑回归分析结果表明，感知到的威胁的三个维度都与强硬移民政策的偏好正相关。此外，无论在物流模型中是否包含感知到的威胁，共和党人都是强硬移民议程的一贯积极预测者，而女性是一贯否定的积极预测者。最后，结构方程模型的路径分析结果表明文化威胁对政治隶属关系（共和和独立）与种族（拉丁美洲）之间关系的中介作用，以及对强硬移民政策的支持。而女性始终是负面的。最后，结构方程模型的路径分析结果表明文化威胁对政治隶属关系（共和和独立）与种族（拉丁美洲）之间关系的中介作用，以及对强硬移民政策的支持。而女性始终是负面的。最后，结构方程模型的路径分析结果表明文化威胁对政治隶属关系（共和和独立）与种族（拉丁美洲）之间关系的中介作用，以及对强硬移民政策的支持。