TY - JOUR
T1 - Constructing Rhetorical Borders
T2 - Peons, Illegal Aliens, and Competing Narratives of Immigration
AU - Flores, Lisa A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Lisa A. Flores is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Utah. The author would like to thank the Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award and the University of Utah University Research Committee, which provided funding for this project, and the University of Utah Faculty Fellow Program, which provided research time. Thanks are also given to Celeste M. Condit, Bonnie J. Dow, and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback. Previous versions of this essay were presented at the Tanner Humanities Center Works-in-Progress Series, University of Utah, October 2001 and at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, November 2001.
PY - 2003/12
Y1 - 2003/12
N2 - Recent work in immigration suggests interconnections among race, nation, and immigration. This essay examines these relations, noting the rhetorical dynamics through which symbolic borders emerge and shift, in part through national debates over immigrants. Turning critical attention to mediated representations of Mexican immigrants in the 1920s and 1930s, I argue that Mexican immigrant bodies provided rhetorical space for a national discussion of race and nation. I highlight, in particular, a deportation drive and repatriation campaign that resulted in the mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of Mexicans and Mexican Americans.
AB - Recent work in immigration suggests interconnections among race, nation, and immigration. This essay examines these relations, noting the rhetorical dynamics through which symbolic borders emerge and shift, in part through national debates over immigrants. Turning critical attention to mediated representations of Mexican immigrants in the 1920s and 1930s, I argue that Mexican immigrant bodies provided rhetorical space for a national discussion of race and nation. I highlight, in particular, a deportation drive and repatriation campaign that resulted in the mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of Mexicans and Mexican Americans.
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U2 - 10.1080/0739318032000142025
DO - 10.1080/0739318032000142025
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:0346957434
SN - 1529-5036
VL - 20
SP - 362
EP - 387
JO - Critical Studies in Media Communication
JF - Critical Studies in Media Communication
IS - 4
ER -
