{"title":"(Re) Framing Legal Vulnerability: Identity, Abjection, and Resistance among DACAmented Immigrants in the Era of Trumpism","authors":"Heidy Sarabia, Laura Zaragoza, Jesus Limon Guzman","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2021.2009391","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores the narratives published in the New York Times by and about undocumented and DACAmented immigrants to explore how the abjective status of undocumented migration has shifted to the question of criminality. Using the stories shared by young undocumented immigrants publicly in the New York Times, after the election of Donald Trump, as well as the narratives used by politicians (like Trump), we analyze their narratives to explore what their stories reveal about belonging, identity, abjectivity, and resistance. We argue that abjectivity and illegality has been effectively dislocated by young immigrants, who have successfully challenged the construction of unauthorized migration as an abject status. Politicians, thus, have successfully shifted abjectivity from a question of illegality to a question of criminality, recasting young immigrants as “American dreamers,” while maintaining the abject subject as an illegal and criminal subject.","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":"32 2 1","pages":"180 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Howard Journal of Communications","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2021.2009391","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract This article explores the narratives published in the New York Times by and about undocumented and DACAmented immigrants to explore how the abjective status of undocumented migration has shifted to the question of criminality. Using the stories shared by young undocumented immigrants publicly in the New York Times, after the election of Donald Trump, as well as the narratives used by politicians (like Trump), we analyze their narratives to explore what their stories reveal about belonging, identity, abjectivity, and resistance. We argue that abjectivity and illegality has been effectively dislocated by young immigrants, who have successfully challenged the construction of unauthorized migration as an abject status. Politicians, thus, have successfully shifted abjectivity from a question of illegality to a question of criminality, recasting young immigrants as “American dreamers,” while maintaining the abject subject as an illegal and criminal subject.
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Culture, ethnicity, and gender influence multicultural organizations, mass media portrayals, interpersonal interaction, development campaigns, and rhetoric. Dealing with these issues, The Howard Journal of Communications, is a quarterly that examines ethnicity, gender, and culture as domestic and international communication concerns. No other scholarly journal focuses exclusively on cultural issues in communication research. Moreover, few communication journals employ such a wide variety of methodologies. Since issues of multiculturalism, multiethnicity and gender often call forth messages from persons who otherwise would be silenced, traditional methods of inquiry are supplemented by post-positivist inquiry to give voice to those who otherwise might not be heard.
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