Pandemic Politics

Immigration, Framing, and Covid-19

Bibliographic Data

ID18943276
AuthorsJustin Reedy (0000-0002-7581-8558, University of Oklahoma), Benjamin Gonzalez O’brien (0000-0001-7598-0769, San Diego State University, corresponding author), Elizabeth H Hurst (0000-0002-6806-1120, University of Oklahoma)
Year2023
Volume8
Issue2
Pages246-266
Publication date2023-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Race Ethnicity and Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2056-6085 • E-ISSN: 2056-6085
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/rep.2023.14
OpenAlexW4380610170
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited45

The covid-19 pandemic has revived a longstanding, and understudied, trope in American politics: the association of immigrants with disease. There has been a great deal of scholarship on the economic, cultural, and criminal threat frames attached to immigrant groups in media coverage, but little to date has specifically examined how national and local sources have framed covid-19 in the context of immigrant communities. In this paper we analyze the prevalence of two different framings of the pandemic in national and local online news outlets over the first year of the pandemic: immigration as a public health threat to the nation, and covid-19 as a threat to immigrant communities within the nation. We find significant differences between national and local coverage, with the former more likely to frame immigration as a covid-19 threat, while local news outlets were more likely to discuss the threat the virus posed to already marginalized immigrant communities

Criminology · Disease · Geography · Immigration · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Law · Media Influence and Politics · Media Studies and Communication · Medicine · Social Media and Politics

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