• DOI:10.1080/0739318032000142025
Corpus ID: 56195185

Constructing Rhetorical Borders: Peons, Illegal Aliens, and Competing Narratives of Immigration

@article{Flores2003ConstructingRB,
  title={Constructing Rhetorical Borders: Peons, Illegal Aliens, and Competing Narratives of Immigration},
  author={L. A. Flores},
  journal={Critical Studies in Media Communication},
  year={2003},
  volume={20},
  pages={362 - 387}
}

L. A. Flores

Published 2003

Sociology

Critical Studies in Media Communication

Recent work in immigration suggests interconnections among race, nation, and immigration. This essay examines these relations, noting the rhetorical dynamics through which symbolic borders emerge and shift, in part through national debates over immigrants. Turning critical attention to mediated representations of Mexican immigrants in the 1920s and 1930s, I argue that Mexican immigrant bodies provided rhetorical space for a national discussion of race and nation. I highlight, in particular, a… CONTINUE READING

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