Browsing by Subject "Migrants"

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    Media Portrayals of Migrants in the UK and Italy: Uncovering Racial Biases
    (2025-01-16) Olson-Hernandez, Alyssa
    This study examines the framing of migrants from Africa, the Middle East, and Ukraine in the media from the UK and Italy. It aims to uncover the differences in their representation based on the political orientation and nationality of the source. Using a mixed-methods approach, 60 news articles were analyzed from left and right-leaning sources, categorizing them by tone and framing. The findings reveal significant racial biases, with non-white migrants from Africa and the Middle East often depicted less favorably compared to white Ukrainian migrants. These biases in media coverage contribute to the cycle of discrimination against migrants of color. The study adds to the understanding of the media's role in the perceptions of migrants in media and calls for addressing these biases.
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    The migrating state: Mexico, migrants, and transnational governance.
    (2010-03) Mackey, Paul Michael
    Since the late 1980s, the Mexican government has been developing a program to assist and defend Mexican migrants that live north of Mexico's territorial borders. Unprecedented in scope and scale, the program has attempted to cultivate in migrants affinity for the Mexican homeland and strengthen the transnational social and economic ties that link migrants to Mexico. This project argues that Mexico's program of "acercamiento" with migrant communities is inextricably linked to Mexico's adoption of neoliberal governing rationalities, and that the government has deployed migration policy as a vehicle for reinventing the reason of state in Mexico. While engaging contemporary issues in political geography and globalization studies, this project explores the rhetorical dimensions of Mexico's outreach to migrants, including rhetoric's pivotal role in rescaling the institution of the Mexican state, in reimagining the governing relationship between the state and migratory subjects, and in disembedding concepts such as sovereignty, nation, and citizenship from their entrenchment in national territory and rearticulating them to transnational migrant flows.