“Your friend, the illegal:” Definition and paradox in newspaper accounts of U.S. immigration reform

Coutin, Susan Bibler; Chock, Phyllis Pease

doi:10.1080/1070289x.1997.9962529

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“…By frames I mean 'persistent patterns of cognition, interpretation, and presentation, of selection, emphasis, and exclusion, by which [people] routinely organize discourse, whether verbal or visual' (Gitlin 1980: 7). Coutin and Chock (1995) argue that when faced with the problem of turning reports into stories, journalists draw from this collective pool of symbolic resources. 7 Even when reporters recognize that situations are more complex than can be expressed through these normative frames, journalists usually continue to use them, in part because they understand their task to be producing stories their readers will understand (Pedelty 1995).…”

Section: Making Global News Localmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making global news: “Freedom of speech” and “Muslim rage” in U.S. journalism

Peterson

2007

Cont Islam

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The American press began to take notice of the Danish cartoons after they began to circulate outside of Europe. The press primarily framed the events as a single problem of global interaction: an issue of 'freedom of speech' opposed to 'religious sensitivity.' Much of the coverage permitted, within limits, a plurality of voices. Drawing on a case study of stories about the 'cartoon controversy' in the Boston Globe, I argue that U.S. journalism is organized by a logic of objectivity that seeks to produce a 'perspectiveless perspective on all perspectives' (Bourdieu, On television. New York: The New Press, 1998), showing voices on 'both sides,' simultaneously masked and contributed to the press's reifying a series of events into a single global 'event,' one that reflected a clash of Western and Islamic values.

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Section: Making Global News Localmentioning

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Making global news: “Freedom of speech” and “Muslim rage” in U.S. journalism

Peterson

2007

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“…Accordingly, community organi? zations whose legal programs had focused exclusively on political asylum (Coutin, 1995). Similarly discussions of Salvadorans' legal rights negotiate the extent of dem tion in El Salvador, the obligations of receiving states toward migrant ers, and immigrants' positions vis avis their countries of origin.…”

Section: Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In 1984 and1985, sanctuary activists were convicted in Texas on charges of transporting illegal aliens, and in 1986, eight movement members were convicted of conspiracy and alien smuggling in Tucson, Arizona {see Blum, 1991;Coutin, 1995;Pirie, 1990). Despite these convictions, activists continued to attempt to obtain some form of blanket legal protection for undocumented Salvadorans and Guatemalans.…”

Section: Sanctuarymentioning

confidence: 99%

From Refugees to Immigrants: The Legalization Strategies of Salvadoran Immigrants and Activists

Coutin

1998

International Migration Review

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The legalization strategies pursued by Salvadoran immigrants and activists from the 1980s to the present demonstrate that migrants’ and advocates’ responses to policy changes reinterpret law in ways that affect future policy. Law is critical to immigrants’ strategies in that legal status is increasingly a prerequisite for rights and services and that immigration law is embedded in other institutions and relationships. Immigration law is defined, however, not only when it is first formulated but also as it is implemented, enabling the immigrants who are defined according to legal categories to shape the definitions that categorization produces. Immigrants and activists also take formal legal and political actions, such as lobbying Congress and filing class action suits. Through such formal and informal policy negotiations, immigrants seek to shape their own and their nations’ futures.

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“…The physical movement of the immigrant is to be accompanied by a social and legal transformation in which the immigrant joins US. society, capitalizes on opportunities to develop, and becomes American (see Chock 1991; Coutin and Chock 1995). naturalization ceremony (at which this legal transformation is finalized), a judge celebrated this notion, telling some 3,000 naturalizing citizens, "No one in America is going to tell you artificially what your utmost achievement can be.…”

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“…This transformation of coercion into choice is accomplished by decontextualizations of action and erasures of history (Matoesian 1997;Coutin and Chock 1995;Shapiro 1988). In the example that began this section, the judge's suggestion that adopted citizens "really have adopted this country," just as the country "has adopted you" implies that grafting, adopting, and naturalizing are a two-way process of active choice.…”

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In the Mirror: The Legitimation Work of Globalization

Coutin

Maurer

Yngvesson

2002

Law & Social Inquiry

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This essay examines the legitimation work of globalization by bringing into dialogue the authors' research on immigration, finance, and intercountryadoption. It is concerned with the practices that produce, define, and preclude both movement and connection, such as “naturalizing” some border crossings while criminalizing others; denying the histories and policies that allow some parents to “choose” babies while others must abandon them; and challenging the practices through which small states tweak transnational financial systems while allowing multinational corporations privileges denied small states. Legitimation work (re)configures jurisdictionality, transparency, and sovereignty–the constructs on which debates over globalization's consequences hinge. Examining how these constructs order, include, and exclude persons, goods, and practices sheds light on the boundaries, slippages, and connections between the legitimate and the illegitimate within global processes.

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“Your friend, the illegal:” Definition and paradox in newspaper accounts of U.S. immigration reform

Cited by 72 publications

References 26 publications

Making global news: “Freedom of speech” and “Muslim rage” in U.S. journalism

Making global news: “Freedom of speech” and “Muslim rage” in U.S. journalism

From Refugees to Immigrants: The Legalization Strategies of Salvadoran Immigrants and Activists

In the Mirror: The Legitimation Work of Globalization

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