“They Are Our Brothers”: The Migrant Caravan in the Diasporic Press

Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology

“…Beyond exposing the deep political chasms surrounding immigration policy, this debate also exposed fissures and contradictions in the national discourse regarding mothering. This project situates media reports during this period within the literature of motherhood and migrant families (Antony & Thomas 2017;Bishop & Medved 2020;Fabegrat, Vinyals-Mirabent, & Meyers 2020;Kam, Torres, & Fazio 2018). Data analysis suggests that public discourse frames these mothers within polar extremes.…”

“…For example, such discourse provides a limited perspective and oversimplifies migrants' experiences. Researchers found that, in an analysis of 55 articles about the migrant caravan in 2018, mainstream media tended to focus on Trump rather than provide insight into the migrants' experiences (Fabegrat, Vinyals-Mirabent, and Meyers 2020). Furthermore, while migration is a complex sociopolitical issue, media coverage often reduces it to one of individual's criminality.…”

Surviving “la lucha” in Ciudad Juárez. An anthropological reflection on the cuban community in Ciudad Juárez, México

“…This literature review will begin by focusing on policies set forth by former President Obama (2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016) placing an emphasis on articles by Kelly Bogart (2018) in "Keeping the Dream Alive: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and the Necessary Next Step"; Benjamin Roth (2018) in "The double bind of DACA: exploring the legal violence of liminal status for undocumented youth"; Kristina Campbell (2018) in "Dreamers Deferred: The Broken Promise of Immigration Reform in the Obama Years", and other scholars who discuss migratory topics such as DACA and how immigration was enforced under the Obama presidency. Secondly, we will examine former President Trump's (2016Trump's ( -2020 zero-tolerance approach to immigration and discuss the Remain in México policy that was enacted by his administration by exploring research conducted by the following researchers Fabregat, Vinyals-Mirabent, and Meyers (2020) in "They Are Our Brothers": The Migrant Caravan in the Diasporic Press"; Mukpo (2020) in "Asylum Seekers Stranded in México Face a New Danger: COVID-19"; Jeremy Slack (2019) in "Deported to Death", and others. Lastly, we will discuss how the migratory policies that have been sanctioned by the US government negatively affect migrants and put them in increased danger citing periodicals by Chappell (2019) and Martínez Prado (2019).…”

“…To understand how life on the border is currently experienced, we must explore recent migratory patterns, such as the migrant caravans that have resulted in harsh policies like 2019), migrant caravans began making their way from Central America through México to the US in 2011, however, the caravans increased in 2018, with the last one comprising between 4,000 and 7,000 migrants (Fabregat, Vinyals-Mirabent, Meyers, 2020). The caravans were highly politicized and became a hot button issue during the 2018 mid-term elections, in which former President Trump framed the situation as an invasion and used the caravans to push his anti-immigrant rhetoric and sociological discourse of criminalization even further (Fabregat, Vinyals-Mirabent, Meyers, 2020).…”

Aesthetics of Otherness: Representation of #migrantcaravan and #caravanamigrante on Instagram

“…In the United States, where migrant representation is often tied to Latinx representation, researchers found that 64% of Latinx-themed NBC Nightly News segments from 2012 to 2014 portrayed migrants as a “threat” to the country, “as criminals, illegal immigrants, or communists” (Negrón-Muntaner & Abbas, 2016, p. 2). Spanish-language news media in the United States and diasporic media are more sympathetic to immigrants, especially outlets closer to the United States/Mexico border (Branton & Dunaway, 2008; Fabregat et al, 2020). However, neoliberal narratives of citizenship and political agency were also present in the US Spanish news covering immigration protests that occurred in 2006.…”