Title Hate groups targeting unauthorized immigrants: discourses, narratives and subjectivation practices on their websites
Authors GEMIGNANI, MARCO, HERNÁNDEZ ALBUJAR, YOLANDA
External publication Si
Means ETHNIC RACIAL STUD
Scope Article
Nature Científica
JCR Quartile 2
SJR Quartile 1
SJR Impact 1.027
Web https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84944145413&doi=10.1080%2f01419870.2015.1058967&partnerID=40&md5=74ecbf9c9255c766aa2778c7a9e2c3c0
Publication date 01/01/2015
ISI 000362555000009
Scopus Id 2-s2.0-84944145413
DOI 10.1080/01419870.2015.1058967
Abstract The narratives and images on websites of US hate groups that oppose undocumented immigrants represent and reproduce discourses that contribute to the subject formation of group members, who feel ethically obliged to counter unauthorized immigration. Left alone by the government, which is seen as unreliable and uncaring of patriotic values, they position themselves as heroic saviours of the nation. We argue that these hate groups’ ‘games of truth’ develop in response to the perception that irregular immigration threatens specific social orders and values, for instance about citizenship, national identity and otherness. This article helps to understand the ways in which anti-immigrant narratives serve the functions of countering these threats and of asserting the group members’ ethical obligation as a form of care of the self. In other words, from a Foucaultian viewpoint, we interpret the problematizations of ‘illegal’ immigration as discursive practices for the subject formation of hate group members. © 2015 Taylor & Francis.
Keywords citizenship; ethics; government; immigrant population; minority group; national identity; perception; World Wide Web; United States
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