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Record Nr.

UNINA9910647292803321

Autore

Richey Sean

Titolo

Collateral damage : the influence of political rhetoric on the incorporation of second-generation Americans / / Sean Richey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, Michigan : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9780472903139

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 163 pages) : illustrations

Soggetti

Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States

Children of immigrants - Political aspects - United States

Internalization - Political aspects - United States

Communication in politics - United States

United States Emigration and immigration Political aspects

United States Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-150) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Collateral Damage provides an overview of how political communication influences the process of incorporation with the broad society as well as its political parties. Sean Richey shows that how politicians talk about immigrants affects how their children perceive America and their feelings about the nation. These perceptions and feelings in turn greatly influence the children's desire to incorporate into American political society. He also shows that regardless of a speaker's intended outcome, what is said can still have a deleterious effect on incorporation desire, a communicative process that he terms "collateral damage." Richey uses new experimental and survey evidence, as well as the rhetoric of Donald Trump as a test case, to examine how anti-immigration communication influences the incorporation of the children of immigrants.