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    Dr Kim Ebert

    Associate Professor and Assistant Professor

    • Email: klebert@ncsu.edu
    • Phone: 919-515-9011
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    Teaching and Research Interests

    Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, Political Sociology, Collective Action and Social Movements, Urban and Community

    Funded Research

    National Science Foundation (NSF), Sociology Program. Title: Legitimating Strategies in Privatized Immigration Control. $119,056, Award #SES-1850712. Role: PI. 2019-2021.

    Publications

    Selected examples:

    Apathy and Color-Blindness in Privatized Immigration Control

    Examining the reach of colorblindness: ideological flexibility, frame alignment, and legitimacy among racially conservative and extremist organizations

    Apathy and Antipathy: Media Coverage of Restrictive Immigration Legislation and the Maintenance of Symbolic Boundaries

    Legitimating Contexts, Immigrant Power, and Exclusionary Activity

    When Organizations Matter: Threatening Demographics, Supportive Politics, and Immigration Lawmaking

    Anti-Immigrant Ordinances and Discrimination in New and Established Destinations

    New Rural Immigrant Destinations: Research for the 2010s

    Social Citizenship, Integration, and Collective Action: Immigrant Civic Engagement in the U.S.

    ¿El Campeón de Los Hispanos? Comparing the Coverage of Latino Collective Action in Spanish- and English-Language Newspapers

    Beyond the Ballot: Immigrant Collective Action in Gateways and New Destinations

     

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