Scholarship on the Mexican state's role in migration to the United States has been hampered by a lack of comprehensive engagement with meaning. We address this shortcoming by examining a data set of Mexican presidents' public speeches (1994–2012). We argue that increased engagement with migration has been accompanied by more expansive conceptualisations of migration and willingness to politicise the issue. We identify a discourse of reaction characterised by a defence of Mexican migrants in the United States that is sometimes expressed defiantly; and a discourse of construction, defined by a more measured approach that allows for long-term policies to be enacted.

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迁移的话语表征

由于缺乏对意义的全面参与，有关墨西哥州在移民美国中的作用的学术研究受到了阻碍。我们通过检查墨西哥总统公开演讲（1994-2012）的数据集来解决这个缺点。我们认为，与移民的更多接触伴随着更广泛的移民概念化和将问题政治化的意愿。我们确定了一种反应话语，其特点是为美国的墨西哥移民辩护，这种话语有时被挑衅地表达；以及一种建设性话语，由一种更慎重的方法定义，允许制定长期政策。