Rights, Economics, or Family?Frame Resonance, Political Ideology, and the Immigrant Rights Movement

Bloemraad, Irene; Silva, Fabiana; Voss, Kim

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“…Research shows that moral reframing is an effective means for persuasion on political issues far beyond the environment (Bloemraad, Silva, & Voss, 2016;Feinberg & Willer, 2015;Franks & Scherr, 2019;Simon & Gilliam, 2013;Thomas, 2017). For example, Feinberg and Willer (2015) found that liberals were more supportive of military spending when presented with fairness-focused arguments emphasizing the military's role in helping to overcome income inequality and racial discrimination than they were presented with more typical, authority-and loyalty-focused arguments that emphasized that the military demonstrated American patriotism and world dominance.…”

Section: A Review Of Moral Reframing Researchmentioning

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Moral reframing: A technique for effective and persuasive communication across political divides

Feinberg

Willer

2019

Social & Personality Psych

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The political landscape in the US and many other countries is characterized by policy impasses and animosity between rival political groups. Research finds that these divisions are fueled in part by disparate moral concerns and convictions that undermine communication and understanding between liberals and conservatives. This “moral empathy gap” is particularly evident in the moral underpinnings of the political arguments members of each side employ when trying to persuade one another. Both liberals and conservatives typically craft arguments based on their own moral convictions rather than the convictions of the people they target for persuasion. As a result, these moral arguments tend to be unpersuasive, even offensive, to their recipients. The technique of moral reframing—whereby a position an individual would not normally support is framed in a way that is consistent with that individual's moral values—can be an effective means for political communication and persuasion. Over the last decade, studies of moral reframing have shown its effectiveness across a wide range of polarized topics, including views of economic inequality, environmental protection, same‐sex marriage, and major party candidates for the US presidency. In this article, we review the moral reframing literature, examining potential mediators and moderators of the effect, and discuss important questions that remain unanswered about this phenomenon.

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Section: A Review Of Moral Reframing Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moral reframing: A technique for effective and persuasive communication across political divides

Feinberg

Willer

2019

Social & Personality Psych

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“…Diverse slogans adorned protestors' placards in 2006, ranging from appeals to America's long tradition of immigration and assertions of homecountry pride, to language highlighting immigrants' economic contributions and assertions that 'immigrant rights are human rights.' Research suggests, however, that while appeals to bedrock American values like family can resonate, homeland appealsor even economic claimshave little purchase and may even spur mainstream opposition Bloemraad, Silva, and Voss 2016). During the Obama administration, activists crafted a new frame highlighting the Americanness and deservingness of young undocumented Dreamers, a discourse that resonated with political leaders and in public opinion (Matthews 2018).…”

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Movement or moment? Lessons from the pro-immigrant movement in the United States and contemporary challenges

Bloemraad

Voss

2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This introduction to the special issue takes stock of the current state of the pro-immigrant movement in the United States. It begins by reflecting back on the massive demonstrations for immigrant rights that swept the U.S. in 2006 and considers whether they should be seen as one episode in a broad, long-term immigrant movement, or just a remarkable but ephemeral moment of spontaneous political action. We contend that a true social movement on behalf of immigrants exists in the United States, with an arc of successes and failures over time. Using both an empirical and theoretical lens, we draw on the interdisciplinary articles in this volume to examine the movement in the years since the 2006 protests. We note that existing scholarship on social movements has not yet fully grappled with the way citizenship and migration status challenge core concepts in the field, and we advance that project. We end by speculating on what might be unique to the United States, and what more general lessons we can draw to better understand the successes and failures, as well as future prospects, of mobilisation and advocacy by and on behalf of immigrants, in the United States and elsewhere.

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“…It is noteworthy that the presence of rights in the public discourse is already well researched in the social movement literature using framing analysis (see e.g., Benford and Snow ; Elveland ; Williams ). The significance of rights recognized in this approach led to their status of master frames and various specific frames defined as workers’ rights, civil rights, human rights, and law violation (Bloemraad, Voss, and Silva ; Haunss ). Nevertheless, our study goes beyond frames analysis.…”

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Whose Rights, Which Duties? Political Claims in the Sphere of Labor Policy in the Times of Crisis: The Social Citizenship Perspective

2016

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The goal of this article is to explore the discursive construction of social citizenship of various labor market actors during crisis. Using the newspaper data from nine countries we conduct a quantitative and qualitative study of the rights and duties attributed to employees, employers, and outsiders in the labor market. We find that the attribution of rights to all groups prevails and the most frequent are the claims supporting employees rights. In a context of crisis severity, we find three distinct groups of discourse on rights and duties in the labor market sphere. A severe crisis created conditions for labor organizations to claim the rights of employees. A moderate crisis created the ground for the state to (re)call the rights of the outsiders. In countries in which crisis was present in the discourse, rather than in real terms, a window of opportunity emerged for markets and employers to claim their freedoms and rights.

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Rights, Economics, or Family?Frame Resonance, Political Ideology, and the Immigrant Rights Movement

Cited by 93 publications

References 54 publications

Moral reframing: A technique for effective and persuasive communication across political divides

Moral reframing: A technique for effective and persuasive communication across political divides

Movement or moment? Lessons from the pro-immigrant movement in the United States and contemporary challenges

Whose Rights, Which Duties? Political Claims in the Sphere of Labor Policy in the Times of Crisis: The Social Citizenship Perspective

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