Media Rhetoric and Migration. Representations of migration in Post 9/11 New York Times narratives
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https://doi.org/10.16921/chasqui.v0i138.3630Keywords:
illegal, Mexicans, news, United States, discourse, terrorismAbstract
As a cultural institution, the press plays a fundamental role in documenting and forging the public image of migrants. This paper analyzes two thematic axes in the post 9/11 narrative of the New York Times on migration. The image that was created during the year following the terrorist attacks presents on the one hand the Mexican migrant as a potential terrorist and on the other hand migration as a global problem. It is fundamental to problematize the rhetoric about contemporary migration by inserting it in the ideological roots that defined that moment and in the historical framework of the Mexico-United States relationship. The media rhetoric post 9/11 contributed to the emergence of a new international agenda by globalizing this representation.References
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