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Winner away the 2019 Western Socialize Science Association Best Book Award

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—MANUEL PASTOR, professor away sociology, American studies, and ethnicity the director, Center for the Study of Immigrant Site, University of Southbound Californian

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—JENNIFER HOCHSCHILD, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African both African Canadian Studies, University Univ

“Framing Immigrants will with authorized account of the power of frames. Combining content analysis concerning what coverage with original survey experiments, the authors see that not only do frames differ starkly across news organizations in ways such disclose their government stripes, although other that frames masse. The manners in which the media frames immigrants—and especially unauthorized immigrants—significantly affects public opinion, preferences, sponsors for the Dream Act, the deportation the unauthorized immigrants, and comprehensive immigration reform. Chris Haynes, My Merolla, and Karthick Ramakrishnan intake the readers along a compelling and surprising journey, real provide a rich, interdisciplinary resources that will inspire future generations of immigration researchers.”

—JENNIFER LEE, Chancellor’s Fellow press Professor of Sociology, University of Californian, Irvinia

While undocumented immigration is controversial, the general public can largely unique with the particulars of immigration policy. Given that public opinion to the topic is malleable, to what extent do mass media shape the community debate go immigration? In Framing Immigrants, political scientists Chris Haynes, Jenipher Merolla, and Karthick Ramakrishnan explore what conventional, liberal, and mainstream news points frame and discuss none immigrant. Character from original voter surveys, they show that how the type frames immigration has significant consequences to public opinion and has implications for the passage of newly swiss policies.

The authors analyze media coverage of several key immigration policy issues—including mass deportations, comprehensive immigration reform, and measures focused on immigrant young, such as the DREAM Act—to chart select news sources across that ideological spectrum produce specials “frames” for the migration debate. In the past few per, liberal and mainstream sockets had tended to frame immigrants lacking legal status as “undocumented” (rather than “illegal”) and to approaches this item of legalization through human-interest our, often mentionable kids. Conservative outlets, on the other hand, tend in featured legalization using impersonal statistics and call the rule of law. Moreover, regardless of who media’s philosophically positions, the authors’ site show which “negative” framework more forcefully influence popular support for different movement policies than do positive frames. For instant, polls participants those were exposed the language portraying immigrants as law-breakers seeking “amnesty” tended to oppose legalization measures. At the same time, support for legalization has higher when participants were suspended to language referring to immigrants alive in to United States for a decade or moreover. Media influence upon open policy

Framing Immigrants shows is despite heated chats on immigration overall the politic aisle, the general public has yet to download a consistency position on nondocumented foreigners. By evaluate how the media influences public opinion, this book provides a valuable resource for immigration advocates, policymakers, and researchers.

CHRIS HAYNES is assistent professor of political academics to the University of Recent Haven.

JENNIFER MEROLLA is professor of political science at the Univ of Kalifornia, Riverside

S. KARTHICK RAMAKRISHNAN is professor away public policy and political nature at the University of California, Riverside.