The Trump administration’s framing of the MS-13 gang: narrowing the borders of belonging with homeland maternity

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Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI:10.1080/14791420.2023.2236187

Jimmy Lizama

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This article reveals how the Trump administration constructed an anti-immigrant narrative tailored for Central Americans that modified established anti-Mexican nativism. By reinscribing a hegemonic “mythos” about gangs, harnessing homeland maternity, and representing undocumented Central Americans as a primary factor for MS-13’s presence and waves of violence, the administration portrayed Central American immigration as an existential threat to America. Analyzing this rhetoric elucidates an intervention in contemporary nativism by showing how its rhetoricity relies on the bordering power of security discourse, racialized fears relating to non-white population expansion, and a racial interpellation facilitated by homeland maternity.

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特朗普政府对MS-13团伙的诬陷：缩小与本土产妇的归属边界

摘要本文揭示了特朗普政府如何构建一种针对中美洲人的反移民叙事，以改变既定的反墨西哥本土主义。通过重新塑造关于帮派的霸权“神话”，利用祖国的母性，并将无证的中美洲人视为MS-13存在和暴力浪潮的主要因素，政府将中美洲移民描绘成对美国生存的威胁。分析这种修辞，通过展示其修辞如何依赖于安全话语的边缘力量、与非白人人口扩张有关的种族化恐惧，以及由本土母性促成的种族质询，阐明了对当代本土主义的干预。

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Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies Multiple-

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3.10

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10.50%

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期刊介绍： Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (CC/CS) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. CC/CS publishes original scholarship that situates culture as a site of struggle and communication as an enactment and discipline of power. The journal features critical inquiry that cuts across academic and theoretical boundaries. CC/CS welcomes a variety of methods including textual, discourse, and rhetorical analyses alongside auto/ethnographic, narrative, and poetic inquiry.