Mexican immigrants to the United States increasingly migrate to relatively new places such as Washington state, which now places in the top eight destination states. States wield increasing power to manage migration and negotiate residency at local scales. Although studies focus on migration debates in national and alternative media, little analysis has been done on newspapers in rural communities where migrants work and settle. We examine local English- and Spanish-language newspapers in rural Washington state to demonstrate how English-language newspapers legitimated competing interests and discourses of vulnerability versus precarity, whereas Spanish-language newspapers constituted a collective for rights connected historically to other subaltern groups. We then evaluate the potential for disrupting dominant discourses by local newspapers.

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脆弱性、不稳定和当地报纸上关于移民的辩论中的人们

前往美国的墨西哥移民越来越多地迁移到相对较新的地方，例如华盛顿州，目前该州位列前八名。各州在管理移民和在当地范围内协商居住权方面拥有越来越大的权力。尽管研究侧重于国家媒体和替代媒体上的移民辩论，但很少对移民工作和定居的农村社区的报纸进行分析。我们研究了华盛顿州农村的当地英语和西班牙语报纸，以证明英语报纸如何使竞争利益和脆弱性与不稳定的话语合法化，而西班牙语报纸则构成了历史上与其他下层群体相关的权利集体。然后，我们评估了当地报纸扰乱主流话语的可能性。