“It is just SICKENING”: Emotions and discourse in an anti-immigrant discussion forum

Bloch, Katrina Rebecca

doi:10.1080/00380237.2016.1169901

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“…Symbolic racism is associated with opposition to legal immigration as well as policies that would benefit legal and undocumented immigrants (Berg ). While the United States has a tradition of nativism that marginalizes and stigmatizes immigrants (Zinn ), the threat of “courtesy stigma” (Goffman ) extends toward immigrants' social circles and supporters (Bloch ; Schueths ). Schueths () found that white women partnered with Latinos also felt the rebound effects of racist nativism (Schueths ).…”

Section: Family Separation As a Stigma Contestmentioning

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Liminal Stigma and Disaligning Activity: Online Comments about Trump's Family Separation Policy

Silva

Flynn

2020

Symbolic Interaction

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In 2018, the Trump administration initiated a "zero-tolerance" border policy wherein they criminally prosecuted all individuals who were apprehended crossing the border without proper authorization. The policy change resulted in numerous migrant children being separated from their parents. Through a qualitative content analysis of 1500 YouTube comments made in response to CNN and ProPublica news coverage, we examine each side's aligning activity. Separation challengers claimed border crossers were innocent while condemning their opponents as racist, cruel, and otherwise shameful. Separation advocates bolstered their own claims of innocence by denying that the detainees are victims and condemning separation challengers as hypocrites, dishonest, complicit in illegal immigration, and generally loathsome. These findings show that, enabled by social media, aligning activity in stigma contests can produce a liminal stigma, where identities suffer the ideational aspects of stigma but not necessarily the loss of social status.

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Section: Family Separation As a Stigma Contestmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Schueths () found that white women partnered with Latinos also felt the rebound effects of racist nativism (Schueths ). Bloch () demonstrates how participants at a nativist website responded to accusations of racism by making their own accusations of racism against pro‐immigrant supporters.…”

Section: Family Separation As a Stigma Contestmentioning

confidence: 99%

Liminal Stigma and Disaligning Activity: Online Comments about Trump's Family Separation Policy

Silva

Flynn

2020

Symbolic Interaction

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“…Political rhetoric consists of speech acts and image acts that often rely on emotion-laden messages to "accuse, denounce and actually harm people. They can also flatter, promote, and benefit those same people" (Bakewell, 1998, 22;Bloch, 2016). Over the last 50 years, immigrants and their children have increasingly become the targets of negative media coverage in the United States (Chavez, 2001).…”

Section: Anti-mexican Rhetoricmentioning

confidence: 99%

Words hurt: Political rhetoric, emotions/affect, and psychological well-being among Mexican-origin youth

Chávez

Campos

Corona³

et al. 2019

Social Science & Medicine

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We examined the effect of political rhetoric on the targets of that rhetoric. Drawing from scholarship on anti-Mexican and anti-immigrant rhetoric found readily in various media and scholarship on emotions, we tested four hypotheses. Hypotheses 1 and 2 predicted that positive and negative political rhetoric would increase and decrease positive and negative emotions, respectively. Hypotheses 3 and 4 then predicted that emotional responses to positive or negative political rhetoric would influence perceived stress, subjective health, and subjective wellbeing. Data collection occurred between August 2016 and June 2017 at a university in California. A sample of 280 Mexican-origin youth, defined broadly as having at least one ancestor born in Mexico or the participant themselves born in Mexico, participated in an experiment where they were randomly assigned to one of three study conditions: viewing (1) positive or (2) negative political rhetoric about immigrants and Latinos in general, or (3) neutral rhetoric as a control condition before providing qualitative responses to open-ended questions and completing measures of positive and negative affect, perceived stress, subjective health, and subjective wellbeing. Qualitative responses indicated that negative and positive political rhetoric elicited a range of negative emotions and positive emotions, respectively. Quantitative analysis with independent samples t-tests, ANOVA, and linear regression models found that negative political rhetoric elicited higher negative affect than positive and neutral rhetoric, and positive rhetoric elicited higher positive affect than negative and neutral rhetoric. Negative emotional responses, in turn, were associated with participants' higher perceived stress, lower subjective health and lower subjective well-being. Conversely, positive emotional responses were associated with lower perceived stress, higher subjective health, and higher subjective well-being. Positive political rhetoric, by eliciting positive emotions, can have a salubrious effect. Altogether, these findings suggest that political rhetoric matters for the targets of that rhetoric. In June 2018, a White woman in Running Springs, California, approached Esteban Guzman, a U.S. citizen, and his mother who were gardening and told them to "go back to Mexico" and unleashed other anti-Mexican rants. Guzman asked, "Why do you hate us?" She replied, "Because you're Mexicans." He said, "We're honest people." The woman laughed, and said, "You're rapists, drug dealers. Even the President of the United States says you're a rapist." Guzman: "Thanks to him (Donald Trump) everywhere I go I am a rapist, an animal, and drug dealer. You don't know what it feels like to be hated so much."

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“…The online reviews stemmed from RateMyEmployer.ca between the periods of 2010 and 2016, which is a growing and public online forum that employees are using to circulate the intense emotional experiences they have from engaging in what is often (and quite critically) constructed as precarious, low paid, dirty work. Analyzing online performances provides information pertaining not just to online interaction, but to an understanding of the social construction of gendered and racialized identities (Anahita ; Beneito‐Montagut ; Bloch ; Cover ; Hallett and Barber ; Ignacio ), and most important to this case, class relations and modes of resistance. Approximately half of the reviews studied involved work at a coffee and donut shop (50.6 percent), while the remaining texts remarked on employment experiences in fast food chains (23.1 percent), family restaurants (11.9 percent), pizza joints (5.6 percent), bars and pubs (3.5 percent), catering services (2.8 percent), and other spaces such as convenience stores, truck stops, and bowling alleys where some food and drink production occurs alongside the delivery of other services and products (2.5 percent).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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Dirty Work, Dirty Resistance: Digital Warfare in the Era of Precarious Labor

Johnston

Sanscartier

Johnston

2018

Canadian Review of Sociology

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This qualitative content analysis of 723 anonymous reviews of 60 Canadian food service employers, posted on RateMyEmployer.ca, explores how digital spaces publically circulate precarious workers' resistances and management of occupational stigma. We introduce to literature on "dirty work" the concept of socioeconomic hygiene, which identifies a particular kind of social and moral order within which the positions of the subordinated are naturalized between the socially and morally "clean" and "unclean."

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“It is just SICKENING”: Emotions and discourse in an anti-immigrant discussion forum

Cited by 9 publications

References 42 publications

Liminal Stigma and Disaligning Activity: Online Comments about Trump's Family Separation Policy

Liminal Stigma and Disaligning Activity: Online Comments about Trump's Family Separation Policy

Words hurt: Political rhetoric, emotions/affect, and psychological well-being among Mexican-origin youth

Dirty Work, Dirty Resistance: Digital Warfare in the Era of Precarious Labor

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