Collateral damage : the influence of political rhetoric on the incorporation of second-generation Americans /
Sean Richey
- 1 online resource (xiv, 163 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-150) and index.
Collateral Damage provides an overview of how political communication influences the process of incorporation with the broad society as well as its political parties. Sean Richey shows that how politicians talk about immigrants affects how their children perceive America and their feelings about the nation. These perceptions and feelings in turn greatly influence the children's desire to incorporate into American political society. He also shows that regardless of a speaker's intended outcome, what is said can still have a deleterious effect on incorporation desire, a communicative process that he terms "collateral damage." Richey uses new experimental and survey evidence, as well as the rhetoric of Donald Trump as a test case, to examine how anti-immigration communication influences the incorporation of the children of immigrants.
0472903136 9780472903139
10.3998/mpub.11691056 doi
22573/cats124701 JSTOR
Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States. Children of immigrants--Political aspects--United States. Internalization--Political aspects--United States. Communication in politics--United States. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General Communication in politics. Emigration and immigration--Political aspects. Politics and government. Rhetoric--Political aspects.
United States--Emigration and immigration--Political aspects. United States--Politics and government. United States.