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Mesonarrative Reconfiguration of Immigrants
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Strategic use of first-hand testimony by immigrants can challenge prevalent xenophobic narratives of foreign immigrants as innate threats. Using United States President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric as a point of departure, these negative stereotypes can be critiqued and remediated on three levels: more nuanced individual immigrant testimo...
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... While Trump's accusation that immigrants spread infectious diseases never had scientific merit (Smith, 2016), it still carried persuasive force by rekindling familiar stereotypes of immigrants as sources of contamination and impurity (Markel & Stern, 2002). The continuity over time and consistent thematic clustering of metaphoric attributions contrasts with the more diffuse figurations employed by pro-immigration advocates (Schwartzman, 2020;Smith, 2019). ...
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