Prior work has focused on the role of media in shaping public perceptions of immigrants and in the construction of social illegality. In this article, we examine how the undocumented 1.5 immigrant generation perceive, consume, and navigate media messaging about immigration—and particularly Latino immigrants—to understand the role of media in shaping their lived experiences. We analyze 50 in-depth and nine follow-up interviews with undocumented young adults in Florida collected between 2017 and 2021. Two major themes emerged: (1) how media information and misinformation invoke both legal and ethnoracial consciousness; and (2) how undocumented young immigrants deploy agentic strategies to resist negative and dehumanizing portrayals by rejecting media altogether, leveraging media to resist abuses, and embracing counter-narratives. Based on these findings, we discuss the usefulness of a double consciousness framework and argue for the use of “ethnoracial consciousness” in synergy with legal consciousness to more accurately describe experiences for this population.

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法律和种族意识：拉丁裔无证 1.5 代移民媒体叙事的看法

先前的工作集中在媒体在塑造公众对移民的看法和构建社会非法性方面的作用。在本文中，我们研究了 1.5 岁无证移民一代如何看待、消费和驾驭有关移民的媒体信息——尤其是拉丁裔移民——以了解媒体在塑造他们的生活经历中的作用。我们分析了 2017 年至 2021 年间收集的对佛罗里达州无证年轻人的 50 次深入采访和 9 次后续采访。出现了两个主要主题：（1）媒体信息和错误信息如何唤起法律和民族意识；(2) 无证年轻移民如何部署代理策略，通过完全拒绝媒体、利用媒体抵制虐待和接受反叙事来抵制负面和非人性化的描绘。