Implications of Rhetoric: A Newspaper Analysis of Immigration Policy

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dc.contributor.advisorBhalla, Tamara
dc.contributor.authorDavis, Cassie
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-15T14:57:55Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis project examines nativism and racialized rhetoric surrounding Executive Order 13780 (Muslim ban) to identify parallels with immigration rhetoric and legislation in the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and Operation Wetback (1954). This study is limited to 60 New York Times pieces – articles, editorials, and opinion pieces – and official legislative policies to identify incautious, racialized, and pejorative language. This study also examines scholarship on American nativism to provide a conceptual framework for how rhetoric categorizing migrants as criminal, amoral, or less-than-human serves to justify biased and inhumane treatment of these potential refugees and to encourage anti-immigrant sentiment among Americans.
dc.description.urihttps://ur.umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/354/2021/04/URCAD-web-book.pdf#page=99
dc.format.extent18 pages
dc.genrejournal articles
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2lp3b-5r2y
dc.identifier.citationDavis, Cassie. “Implications of Rhetoric: A Newspaper Analysis of Immigration Policy.” UMBC Review: Journal of Undergraduate Research 22 (2021): 99–116. https://ur.umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/354/2021/04/URCAD-web-book.pdf#page=99
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/41149
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County
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dc.relation.ispartofUMBC American Studies Department
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Student Collection
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