In this paper, we investigate controlling images of Latinx immigrants in the US press. Our paper expands theory within this literature in two new directions. First, we look at the controlling image of the “illegal” as well as the conventional controlling images of the immigrant described in the literature. Second, we investigate whether controlling images of Latinx immigrants remain prevalent outside of newspapers aimed at a predominantly White audience by comparing controlling images of immigrants in Atlanta’s mainstream press to the city’s Black press. We find that controlling images of immigrants are prevalent in the mainstream press but seldom appear in the Black news media. We also find that the “illegal” represents the predominant controlling image of immigrants in both. Few controlling images are explicitly gendered. We argue that the lack of gendering in the controlling images of immigrants may serve to dehumanize all immigrants, complicating and expanding extant research.

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主流媒体和黑人媒体对移民形象的控制：“非法拉丁裔”的话语权

在本文中，我们调查了美国媒体中拉丁裔移民的控制图像。我们的论文在两个新方向上扩展了该文献中的理论。首先，我们看一下文献中描述的“非法”移民的控制形象以及传统的移民控制形象。其次，我们通过将亚特兰大主流媒体中的移民控制图像与该市黑人媒体的控制图像进行比较，调查拉丁裔移民控制图像是否在主要面向白人受众的报纸之外仍然普遍存在。我们发现控制移民的形象在主流媒体中很普遍，但很少出现在黑人新闻媒体中。我们还发现，“非法”代表了两者中移民的主要控制形象。很少有控制图像被明确地性别化。