Kassra Oskooii

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    Allies in name only? Latino-only leadership on DACA may trigger implicit racial biases among White liberals

Allies in name only? Latino-only leadership on DACA may trigger implicit racial biases among White liberals

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At the beginning of September, President Trump announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program within six months. Activists mobilized immediately in response to protect the program which provides temporary shelter from deportation to those covered by the DREAM Act. In new survey research, Sergio Garcia-Rios, Kassra AR Oskooii and Hannah Walker find that when […]

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    Protests against Trump’s immigration executive order may have helped shift public opinion against it.          

Protests against Trump’s immigration executive order may have helped shift public opinion against it.          

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Donald Trump’s executive order preventing the entry of refugees and those from seven Muslim-majority countries has sparked protests across the country and the world. But have those protests had an effect on public opinion? Loren Collingwood, Nazita Lajevardi, and Kassra Oskooii present preliminary findings from a survey conducted before and after President Trump’s executive order. They find that after […]

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