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The Trump Administration seeks to withhold federal funding from “sanctuary cities” and has returned to the Bush-era Secure Communities Program (S-Comm), which has led to a 150% arrest-rate increase of the non-criminal, undocumented migrants who would otherwise be integrated into “sanctuary” jurisdictions. Liberal voices have responded in legal and academic terms, but they have not re-framed the administration’s powerful anti-immigrant narrative. This rhetorical mismatch has obscured fundamental aspects of the debate—namely, the power of states and localities to make community policing decisions and the effectiveness of such integrationist policies. Moreover, the liberals’ approach to states-rights’ litigation is incomplete. The aspects of Executive Order 13,768 that are receiving the most attention (i.e., funding) can be rebuffed, yet the aspects that pose a serious threat to integrationist policies (i.e., S-Comm) are not being addressed. Liberals should continue states-rights’ liti...
Weaponizing Social Media: " The Alt-Right, " the Election of Donald J. Trump and the Rise of Ethno-Nationalism in the United States
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Nowhere has xenophobia, racism and misogyny challenged International Human Rights Conventions, humanitarian principles and the core values of Cosmopolitan Solidarity more than in the United States with the election of Donald J. Trump. In the aftermath of the 2016 Presidential election in the United States, as media, political operatives, the American public and the global community began to come to terms with the outcome, it soon became evident that the use of new media was key to the resurrection of old hates. The chapter explores the message content, construction and dissemination of alt-right themes—misogyny, racism, white supremacy, xenophobia, Islamaphoboa, fear of immigrants and “white genocide”—employed in the campaign discourses of Donald J. Trump and outlines how they propelled him into the White House. Online hate groups from alt-right activists to the anti-woman crusaders of Gamergate, together with political activists adept at the creation of propagandized fake news such as Stephen Bannon of Breitbart, were key in spreading xenophobia and white supremacy over social media platforms, most notably Twitter and Facebook. Trump provided the Alt-right with a megaphone, and they thanked him be shouting Sieg Heil outside his rallies. The effects of these messages are drawn out in an analysis of voting patterns and exit polling data, which demonstrate the efficacy of the alt-right influences of pushing Trump over the top in key swing states.
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" Make America Great Again! " : Donald Trump, Racist Nativism and the Virulent Adherence to White Supremacy Amid U.S. Demographic Change
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This conceptual paper analyzes Donald Trump's presidential campaign to illustrate how articulatory practices of racist nativism exhibit a virulent adherence to white supremacy that opens the discursive doors of public discourse to engage in more overt and violent practices of racism that target People of Color in the U.S. I argue that the wide-spread support of Donald Trump by U.S. voters is a white supremacist response to changing U.S. demographics from a historically white to inevitably non-white population, and perceived as a "threat" to white social status and power.
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Resistance Strategies in the Immigrant Justice Movement
2018 •
mariela olivares
Topics of immigration reform have created deep polarization. To some degree, these political and societal divisions regarding immigrants’ place and ability to remain in the United States drove the Republican successes in the 2016 elections and carried Donald Trump to the White House. When political conservatives called for decreased migration and increased deportations of immigrants already in the United States, progressive politicians and advocates for immigrants did not present a unified and thoughtful response. I discuss this failed narrative strategy in an earlier publication, in which I decry this historic and contemporary lack of cohesive strategy. I end Narrative Reform Dilemmas by observing that the process of creating a cohesive strategy must include an understanding of what fuels contrasting viewpoints and a recognition that reform will only occur when it benefits the most politically powerful majority. Hearkening to the pioneering work of Derrick A. Bell and the phenomeno...
Journal of Institutional Studies
“WAGGING THE DOG”: FEIGNING CRISIS IN U.S. ANTI-MIGRATION NARRATIVES TO CREATE CRISIS - Maureen Duffy
2019 •
Revista Estudos Institucionais - REI
Anti-migration narratives are sweeping around the world, often accompanied by support for racist ideologies. The narratives usually involve some false claim that those seeking to enter the country are presumptively dangerous. Such narratives are obviously not new, but they are arguably being presented in evolving ways and having evolving, and deeply troubling, practical and legal effects. In the U.S., migrants being held in horrific “camp” conditions represent just the latest in a series of anti-migrant measures, each arguably worse than the last. This phenomenon is not limited to the U.S., but that example provides a strong vehicle for demonstrating this larger transnational trend. This article argues that harmful anti-migrant narratives are having significant, adverse effects on human rights and foundational legal norms.
Make America Kill Again: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Donald Trump’s Necropolitical Representations Through Conjunctural Use of Twitter During His Presidency
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Zach Thornhill
