{"id":9082,"date":"2018-01-24T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/?p=9082"},"modified":"2018-01-24T15:59:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T15:59:55","slug":"restrictionist-groups-framing-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2018\/01\/24\/restrictionist-groups-framing-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Exaggerating Immigration on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n Deenesh Sohoni, <\/span>“Restrictionist Discourse by the Numbers: The Framing of the Demographic Impacts of Immigration,” Social Problems<\/em>,<\/a><\/span> 2017<\/span><\/div>\n
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The Internet’s ability to disperse large amounts of information has greatly changed communication worldwide. Not only can beneficial information be transmitted quickly, but\u00a0incorrect\u00a0<\/em>information can also spread rapidly. In\u00a0new research<\/a>,\u00a0Deenesh Sohoni<\/a>\u00a0investigates how immigration numbers are manipulated by restrictionist groups in the United States — groups that advocate for reduced levels of legal immigration and crackdowns than undocumented immigration — to advance and legitimize their claims that immigration is a serious social problem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/div>In 2011, Sohoni examined how 42\u00a0national-level restrictionist groups use their websites to frame the demographic impacts of immigration based on population projections. 2011 was a particularly important year for immigration in the United States, as the DREAM Act<\/a> was reintroduced in the Senate, and a number of states followed Arizona’s SB1070, passing restrictive immigration policies.\u00a0Nearly half presented numbers that were either exaggerations of U.S. Census Bureau projections, used the higher end of the projections without noting it, or listed projections that could not be verified.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Of the groups that presented data, nearly half presented numbers that were either exaggerations of U.S. Census Bureau projections, used the higher end of the projections without noting it, or listed projections that could not be verified. In all cases, these numbers we<\/span>re treated as facts and the groups used them to argue further immigration would make whites a minority in the United States by mid-century.\u00a0<\/span>They also used these figures to argue for restricting \u201cillegal\u201d immigrants in the United States as a way to reduce crime, save public services, and keep jobs and government benefits for \u00a0\u201cAmericans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Sohoni\u2019s research shows us that fake news is not a new phenomenon, and when we use the Internet, we must not only consider what\u00a0<\/em>information we’re getting, but also\u00a0where\u00a0<\/em>it comes from.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deenesh Sohoni, “Restrictionist Discourse by the Numbers: The Framing of the Demographic Impacts of Immigration,” Social Problems, 2017 The Internet’s ability to disperse large amounts of information has greatly changed communication worldwide. Not only can beneficial information be transmitted quickly, but\u00a0incorrect\u00a0information can also spread rapidly. In\u00a0new research,\u00a0Deenesh Sohoni\u00a0investigates how immigration numbers are manipulated by restrictionist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13,85,14,1],"tags":[102549,657,14907,135,528,89,37332,140,37336,1828,37333],"class_list":["post-9082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-inequality","category-politics","category-race","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-immigrant","tag-census","tag-sociology-of-culture","tag-demography","tag-immigrant","tag-immigration","tag-inequality","tag-internet","tag-politics","tag-population","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9082"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9106,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082\/revisions\/9106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}