Legal and Ethnoracial Consciousness

Perceptions of Immigrant Media Narratives Among the Latino Undocumented 1.5 Generation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3757380
AutoresE Vaquera (0000-0001-5692-5342, Department of Sociology and Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA, autor de correspondencia), H Castaneda (0000-0001-5892-3279, University of South Florida), E Aranda (0000-0003-0524-7216, University of South Florida)
Año2022
Volumen66
Número12
Páginas1606-1626
Fecha de publicación2022-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00027642221083538
OpenAlexW4220706820
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas33

Prior work has focused on the role of media in shaping public perceptions of immigrants and in the construction of social illegality. In this article, we examine how the undocumented 1.5 immigrant generation perceive, consume, and navigate media messaging about immigration-and particularly Latino immigrants-to understand the role of media in shaping their lived experiences. We analyze 50 in-depth and nine follow-up interviews with undocumented young adults in Florida collected between 2017 and 2021. Two major themes emerged: (1) how media information and misinformation invoke both legal and ethnoracial consciousness; and (2) how undocumented young immigrants deploy agentic strategies to resist negative and dehumanizing portrayals by rejecting media altogether, leveraging media to resist abuses, and embracing counter-narratives. Based on these findings, we discuss the usefulness of a double consciousness framework and argue for the use of "ethnoracial consciousness" in synergy with legal consciousness to more accurately describe experiences for this population

Consciousness · Immigration · Misinformation · Narrative · Perception · Political science · Population · Social media · Sociology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology