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PROTECTING THE SOUTHERN BORDER: FRAMING MEXICANS IN A POST-9/11 MEDIA

Wagstaff, Audrey E.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1176931680

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2007, MA, Kent State University, College of Communication and Information / School of Media and Journalism.
In 2006, the United States was faced with new legislation regarding immigration, midterm elections, an increasingly unpopular war on terror, a “Day without an immigrant” protest and the election of a new Mexican president. These events paved the way for questioning how the increasing population of Mexican immigrants was portrayed in print media throughout that year. The author also posited that print media framed Mexican immigrants within the context of the war on terror. That is, the author was concerned with whether the newspapers surveyed framed Mexicans as threatening to the United States, specifically in regards to terrorism. This study is a qualitative frame analysis of how Mexican immigrants were portrayed in 2006 in three United States newspapers: The Columbus Dispatch, The Houston Chronicle, and The San Diego Union-Tribune, in a census of N=462 articles. Frames of Mexican immigrants discovered include: [threat to the] status quo, criminal, desperate, alien, pathetic and cash cow, as well as a small number of articles relating Mexican immigrants to potential terror threats. The thesis concludes with a discussion of limitation and suggestions for future research.
Max Grubb (Advisor)
132 p.
immigration; MEXICANS; BORDER; illegal immigrants; Mexican immigrants

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  • Wagstaff, A. E. (2007). PROTECTING THE SOUTHERN BORDER: FRAMING MEXICANS IN A POST-9/11 MEDIA [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1176931680

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wagstaff, Audrey. PROTECTING THE SOUTHERN BORDER: FRAMING MEXICANS IN A POST-9/11 MEDIA. 2007. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1176931680.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wagstaff, Audrey. "PROTECTING THE SOUTHERN BORDER: FRAMING MEXICANS IN A POST-9/11 MEDIA." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1176931680

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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