Reexamining Our Words, Reimagining Our Policies: Undocumented Migration, Families, and the Moral Imagination.
Through examining words and phrases being used to define U.S. immigration in popular speech and public policy, I argue that just speech is an essential component in the creation of just policy toward migrants. Particular consideration is given to the use of the word “illegal” to describe migrants an...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Poverty Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 234 - 254 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2009
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