Challenge
How Organizations Can Promote Immigrant Involvement
Examining ally immigrant rights organizations to assess the relationship between their group styles and their ability to involve immigrants can reveal that divergent levels of immigrant involvement in two organizations can be explained by differences in the organizations’ group styles—specifically, differences in their religious, class-based, and linguistic practices. Having an immigrant-friendly group style can promote immigrant involvement, indicating that an organization’s style is associated with its social composition. Having representative leaders from immigrant groups, though positively associated with immigrant involvement, is insufficient for sustaining immigrant involvement; group style can moderate the effect of having representative leaders. Organizations seeking to recruit and retain a diverse social base could benefit from cultivating a representative group style.