Coverage and Framing of Immigration Policy in US Newspapers

Young, Maria–Elena De Trinidad; Sarnoff, Hannah; Lang, D L; Ramírez, A. Susana

doi:10.1111/1468-0009.12547

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“…airplane flights). As components of racialization processes, the immigration and immigrant policies described above not only contribute to constrained access to health-promoting resources, they also stigmatize Latiné and immigrant identities invoked in immigration and immigrant policy discourse and practice [ 43 , 45 ]– [ 48 ]. Racially minoritized individuals and communities find ways to leverage their power and agency to respond to and navigate racialization processes [ 43 , 49 , 50 ].…”

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Mexican-origin women’s individual and collective strategies to access and share health-promoting resources in the context of exclusionary immigration and immigrant policies

LeBrón,

Schulz,

Gamboa

et al. 2024

BMC Public Health

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Background A growing literature has documented the social, economic, and health impacts of exclusionary immigration and immigrant policies in the early 21st century for Latiné communities in the US, pointing to immigration and immigrant policies as forms of structural racism that affect individual, family, and community health and well-being. Furthermore, the past decade has seen an increase in bi-partisan exclusionary immigration and immigrant policies. Immigration enforcement has been a major topic during the 2024 Presidential election cycle, portending an augmentation of exclusionary policies towards immigrants. Within this context, scholars have called for research that highlights the ways in which Latiné communities navigate exclusionary immigration and immigrant policies, and implications for health. This study examines ways in which Mexican-origin women in a midwestern northern border community navigate restrictive immigration and immigrant policies to access health-promoting resources and care for their well-being. Methods We conducted a grounded theory analysis drawing on interviews with 48 Mexican-origin women in Detroit, Michigan, who identified as being in the first, 1.5, or second immigrant generation. Interviews were conducted in English or Spanish, depending on participants’ preferences, and were conducted at community-based organizations or other locations convenient to participants in 2013–2014. Results Women reported encountering an interconnected web of institutional processes that used racializing markers to infer legal status and eligibility to access health-promoting resources. Our findings highlight women’s use of both individual and collective action to navigate exclusionary policies and processes, working to: (1) maintain access to health-promoting resources; (2) limit labeling and stigmatization; and (3) mitigate adverse impacts of immigrant policing on health and well-being. The strategies women engaged were shaped by both the immigration processes and structures they confronted, and the resources to which they had access to within their social network. Conclusions Our findings suggest a complex interplay of immigration-related policies and processes, social networks, and health-relevant resources. They highlight the importance of inclusive policies to promote health for immigrant communities. These findings illuminate women’s agency in the context of structural violence facing immigrant women and are particularly salient in the face of anti-immigrant rhetoric and exclusionary immigration and immigrant policies.

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Mexican-origin women’s individual and collective strategies to access and share health-promoting resources in the context of exclusionary immigration and immigrant policies

LeBrón,

Schulz,

Gamboa

et al. 2024

BMC Public Health

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“…At the heart of anti‐immigrant sentiments that uphold exclusionary immigration and immigrant policies is an underlying acceptance of immigrant criminalization, which casts some immigrants as “deserving” and others as “undeserving.” 66,67 This ideology overlooks the criminalization of people of color overall, justifies exclusionary immigration policies that link local policing with immigration enforcement, and disadvantages Black and Latino immigrants and other immigrants of color 68 . Additionally, this ideology diverts attention away from immigration as a human rights issue and the need for inclusive policies, 69–71 instead situating the topic as highly divisive and political. While overall national patterns indicate a general consistency or slight decline in the US population's concerns about immigration, 72 there has also been a trend toward increasingly extremist anti‐immigrant ideologies and organized anti‐immigrant movements 73,74 .…”

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Immigration and Immigrant Policies, Health, and Health Equity in the United States

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r There is growing attention to the role of immigration and immigrant policies in shaping the health and well-being of immigrants of color.r The early 21st century in the United States has seen several important achievements in inclusionary policies, practices, and ideologies toward immigrants, largely at subnational levels (e.g., states, counties, cities/towns). National policies or practices that are inclusionary toward immigrants are often at the discretion of the political parties in power.r Early in the 21st century, the United States has implemented several exclusionary immigration and immigrant policies, contributing to record deportations and detentions and worsening inequities in the social drivers of health.

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“…Research has demonstrated the significant impact framing effects can have on public opinion, as many form their opinions based on cues from media and political elites (Abrajano, and Singh 2009; Boomgaarden, and Vliegenthart 2007; Cargile, Merolla, and Pantoja 2014; Scheufele 2000; Scheufele, and Tewksbury 2006; Gil de Zuniga, Correa, and Valenzuela 2012; Iyengar, and Kinder 2010; Lecheler et al 2015; Valentino, Brader, and Jardina 2013; Zaller 1992). While there is a voluminous literature on the framing of immigration in media generally, there have been far fewer studies to-date examining how national and local media framing of immigration varies (De Trinidad Young 2022; Fryberg et al 2012; Kim et al 2011; Kim, and Wanta 2018; Lawlor 2015; Viladrich 2019). In the context of covid-19, there are reasons to believe local and national coverage will differ, especially in border states with large Latinx populations where the impact of covid-19 on these communities is likely to be more salient to readers.…”

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Pandemic Politics: Immigration, Framing, and Covid-19

Reedy

O’Brien

Hurst

2023

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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The covid-19 pandemic has revived a longstanding, and understudied, trope in American politics: the association of immigrants with disease. There has been a great deal of scholarship on the economic, cultural, and criminal threat frames attached to immigrant groups in media coverage, but little to date has specifically examined how national and local sources have framed covid-19 in the context of immigrant communities. In this paper we analyze the prevalence of two different framings of the pandemic in national and local online news outlets over the first year of the pandemic: immigration as a public health threat to the nation, and covid-19 as a threat to immigrant communities within the nation. We find significant differences between national and local coverage, with the former more likely to frame immigration as a covid-19 threat, while local news outlets were more likely to discuss the threat the virus posed to already marginalized immigrant communities.

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Coverage and Framing of Immigration Policy in US Newspapers

Cited by 5 publications

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Mexican-origin women’s individual and collective strategies to access and share health-promoting resources in the context of exclusionary immigration and immigrant policies

Mexican-origin women’s individual and collective strategies to access and share health-promoting resources in the context of exclusionary immigration and immigrant policies

Immigration and Immigrant Policies, Health, and Health Equity in the United States

Pandemic Politics: Immigration, Framing, and Covid-19

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