Employers select immigrant workers for assumed docility and vulnerability.

Evidence

Contrast these views with those of Johnson, a plumber, who says, “I feel someday I’ll be better off. I feel that way because I believe I have it within me to do it”; and with Flynn, a white collar worker, who answers: … No, I’m nowhere near satisfied. It seems to me every time I start to move up a little bit, all the levels move up one step ahead of me. I can’t ever get out of this area. I have a certain desire and willingness to do something extra. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2177 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Employers deliberately mixed immigrant nationalities to prevent worker solidarity — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 672; Attrition selects for workers least troubled by the gap between mandate and practice. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 1055; Immigration is driven by employer demand for low-wage labor, not migrant choice — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3832 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Some workers believe upward mobility depends on personal internal conviction. #complicates (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2177