Pub Date : 2020-10-08DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190845995.013.23
H. Alim, G. Smitherman
This chapter analyzes the discursive practices that enable Donald Trump and his affiliates to (re)produce immigrant illegality: the idea that violations of immigration law are iconic of an “illegal,” dangerous personal character that makes undocumented migrants unimaginable as members of the United States. In its migration discourse, the Trump administration takes up a US policy regime that conflates the legal category “illegal alien” and the cultural image of “the south-of-the border” migrant as a criminal outsider. As immigrant illegality disproportionately impacts certain groups, especially migrants from Mexico and Central America, it is racializing. Although Trumpian migration discourse builds on enduring racial projects, it is remarkable in making racialization overt: something that has been taboo in public speech since the Civil Rights movement. The chapter argues that the administration is able to normalize overt racialization by constructing it as commonsense, a form of truth posited as inherent and obvious without critical analysis.
本章分析了使唐纳德·特朗普及其下属能够(重新)制造非法移民的话语实践:违反移民法是一种“非法”、危险的个人特征的标志，这种特征使无证移民成为美国成员是不可想象的。在移民话语中，特朗普政府采用了一种美国政策体制，将“非法外国人”的法律类别与“南部边境”移民作为犯罪外来者的文化形象混为一谈。由于非法移民对某些群体的影响不成比例，特别是来自墨西哥和中美洲的移民，因此正在种族化。尽管特朗普式的移民话语建立在持久的种族项目之上，但它在将种族化公开化方面非常引人注目:自民权运动(Civil Rights movement)以来，种族化一直是公开言论的禁忌。本章认为，政府能够通过将其构建为常识，一种未经批判性分析就被假定为固有和明显的真理形式，从而使公开的种族化正常化。
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