Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Abstract
writing about the Day Without an Immigrant (DWI) Protests within the year of the 2006 protests are analyzed in order to understand narratives on labor activism of documented and undocumented immigrants in the United States. DWI protests marked an anticipated ‘turning point' in collective action among immigrant workers in the United States. Content analysis was employed to ascertain the portrayal of the protesters by a variety of print media sources. Both univariate and multivariate procedures utilized find that charged rhetoric of racialized anti-immigrant sentiment is present in most sources regardless of the ‘political leaning' of the press, reaffirming the status of ‘other' to both documented and undocumented migrants in the United States in the present day. Protesters ultimately were not seen as workers, but solely as immigrants. The findings illustrate the continued marginalization and racialization of more recent immigrant workers in the United States.
Recommended Citation
Rothschild, Teal. 2011."An Immigrant, Not a Worker: Depiction of the 2006 ‘Day without an Immigrant’ Protests in Printed Media of the United States." Journal of Media Sociology 3 (1-4): 77.
Comments
Published in: Journal of Media Sociology, Volume 3, Issue 1-4, 2011.