When Migrants Become Political Pawns: Decoding the Media Coverage of the American Migrant Busing Crisis

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In this book, Sumana Chattopadhyay analyzes the U.S. migrant busing crisis of 2022 as a case study to explore ideas of nativism, identity politics, divisive rhetorics, and the red-blue-purple political divide, and how these divides are reflected in the media coverage of immigration issues. Chattopadhyay foregrounds the real human beings who have become props in a game of political maneuvering to explore the effects of this media coverage - on both national and local levels - and to illuminate the forces and longterm implications at play in this dynamic.

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Sumana Chattopadhyay is Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies & Research in the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University.