Picturing immigration: how the media criminalizes immigrants

Farris, Emily M.; Mohamed, Heather Silber

doi:10.1080/21565503.2018.1484375

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“…The perceived prototypical Latino group member may also shape how whites view explicit anti-Latino appeals. Researchers have found that media coverage of Latinos is generally tied to immigration (Farris & Mohamed, 2018), negative in tone, and highly sensational (Abrajano & Hajnal, 2015;Abrajano & Singh, 2008;Branton, Cassese, Jones, & Westerland, 2011;Chavez, 2001;Santa Ana, 2002;Valentino et al, 2013). These media portrayals matter.…”

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“No, You're Playing the Race Card”: Testing the Effects of Anti‐Black, Anti‐Latino, and Anti‐Immigrant Appeals in the Post‐Obama Era

Reny

Valenzuela

Collingwood

2019

Political Psychology

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Despite a sizable literature on racial priming, scholars have failed to account for the shifting nature of racial appeals. First, theories of racial priming have not yet been widely applied to increasingly common anti‐immigrant and anti‐Latino political appeals. Second, theories of racial priming have not adequately accounted for both an increasingly racialized political climate and increased tolerance for explicit anti‐minority appeals. In two survey experiments fielded both before Trump's rise and after his presidential victory, we find the Implicit‐Explicit (IE) model always fails for anti‐black appeals, sometimes fails for anti‐immigrant appeals, but consistently holds for anti‐Latino appeals. While we find the null effects of implicit versus explicit anti‐black and anti‐immigrant appeals are partly driven by tolerance for the explicit appeals, we also find evidence that white Americans are adept at recognizing the racial content of appeals featuring widely used, congruent issue‐group pairs. Our findings shed light on conditions under which the IE model does and does not hold in the current political era.

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“No, You're Playing the Race Card”: Testing the Effects of Anti‐Black, Anti‐Latino, and Anti‐Immigrant Appeals in the Post‐Obama Era

Reny

Valenzuela

Collingwood

2019

Political Psychology

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“…Constructing immigrants as a problem is also fomented in the mass media when images of immigrants are presented negatively, such as the image of Jose Inez Garcia Zarate in an orange jumpsuit awaiting a murder trial or the many pictures of MS‐13 gang members referenced often by President Trump. Recent research has found that these types of images may foster the fear of immigrants, thus producing anti‐immigrant policy preferences (Farris & Silber Mohamed, ). That said, it is important to note that just because negative immigration frames tend to shift individuals toward more negative opinions, the media environment has been consistently and persistently negative toward immigrants for many years (Branton & Dunaway, , ; Madrid, ).…”

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Framing and immigration through the trump era

2019

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For the last decade, undocumented or illegal immigration has been one of the most contested policy issues in the United States, with significant news attention on policies affecting the undocumented population, ranging from deportations to comprehensive immigration reform, the DREAM Act, and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Despite these prominent and multifaceted policy debates, scholarship on media framing and public opinion remain more focused on the portrayal of immigrants rather than policies affecting them. In general, scholars find that policy frames are far more consequential to public opinion than equivalency frames (variations in how news media describe unauthorized immigrants, either as “illegal” or “undocumented”) or episodic frames (whether news articles are heavy on human‐interest stories rather than policy facts and statistics). Also, negative frames generally have stronger effects than positive frames, and these effects sometimes vary by partisanship and family migration history. Finally, the relative infrequency of powerful frames in news stories, like a life spent in the United States, provides opportunities for advocates to move public opinion on immigration policy. These findings have important implications for future battles over immigration policy in the United States, which show no signs of abating.

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“…The “Brown Threat” narrative is clear in representations of Latina and Middle Eastern female offenders; according to news accounts, Latinas are generally illegal immigrants trying to live on American assistance, and Middle Eastern females are often terrorists. These negative portrayals of brown bodies can affect people's perceptions on immigration issues (Farris & Mohamed, ; Rivera, ) and cause them to view minority group members as dangerous. These portrayals reinforce racist beliefs.…”

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“…Interestingly, when Latinas are shown in the media as offenders, they are often portrayed as committing crimes related to immigration (Alamillo, Haynes, & Madrid, 2019;Farris & Mohamed, 2018;Pérez, 2016;Steinberg, 2004). In general, the media depict Latinx people as illegally entering the country instead of doing so through legal channels, which can impact how Americans view immigration policy (Farris & Mohamed, 2018;Pérez, 2016). The media also often characterize illegal Latina immigrants as abusing welfare and social services once they arrive in the United States (Marchevsky & Theoharis, 2006).…”

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“…9 While many reservations are distant from cities, it is important to note that less than 30% of Native Americans and Alaska Natives live on reservations; many live in urban centers and cities(Secaira, 2019).10 It is difficult to report imprisonment and arrest data for Asian Americans because many justice agencies do not include "Asians" as their own category(Hu & Esthappan, 2017). Many agencies group Asians into an "Other" category with members of various racial and ethnic groups.11 Past research has examined the photograph and visual representations of male offenders(Chiricos & Eschholz, 2002;Entman, 1994;Entman & Rojecki, 2000) and of specific groups such as immigrants(Farris & Mohamed, 2018) and Afghan women during wartime(Fahmy, 2004). A general examination of female offenders' photographic representations does not yet exist.…”

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The representation of women and girls of color in United States crime news

Slakoff

2019

Sociology Compass

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There is a large body of literature examining the media portrayals of white females as both victims and offenders in crime news, but very little is known about how minority females—including Black, Latina, Middle Eastern, Native American, and Asian women and girls—are portrayed in these roles. In this literature review, I discuss general stereotypes surrounding women of color and their depictions within crime news stories as both victims and offenders. An examination of crime news media portrayals of minority females reveals that outdated and harmful stereotypes provide media personnel frames with which to write their stories. The negative portrayals of minority women and girls—as both victims and offenders—serve to reinforce racist beliefs and affect how consumers view political issues.

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Picturing immigration: how the media criminalizes immigrants

Cited by 115 publications

References 42 publications

“No, You're Playing the Race Card”: Testing the Effects of Anti‐Black, Anti‐Latino, and Anti‐Immigrant Appeals in the Post‐Obama Era

“No, You're Playing the Race Card”: Testing the Effects of Anti‐Black, Anti‐Latino, and Anti‐Immigrant Appeals in the Post‐Obama Era

Framing and immigration through the trump era

The representation of women and girls of color in United States crime news

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