Framing Immigrants: News Coverage, Public Opinion, and Policy
- ISBN-10
- 0871545330
- ISBN-13
- 9780871545336
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 301
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-09
- Publisher
- Russell Sage Foundation
- Authors
- S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, Chris Haynes, Jennifer Merolla
Description
In the past few years, liberal and mainstream outlets have tended to frame immigrants lacking legal status as "undocumented" (rather than "illegal") and to approach the topic of legalization through human-interest stories, often mentioning children. Conservative outlets, on the other hand, tend to discuss legalization using impersonal statistics and invoking the rule of law. Yet, regardless of the media's ideological positions, the authors' surveys show that "negative" frames more strongly influence public support for different immigration policies than do positive frames. For instance, survey participants who were exposed to language portraying immigrants as law-breakers seeking "amnesty" tended to oppose legalization measures. At the same time, support for legalization was higher when participants were exposed to language referring to immigrants living in the United States for a decade or more.
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