{"id":63703,"date":"2014-08-16T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=63703"},"modified":"2014-08-11T03:29:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T08:29:29","slug":"saturday-stat-the-invention-of-the-illegal-immigrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/08\/16\/saturday-stat-the-invention-of-the-illegal-immigrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Stat: The Invention of the “Illegal Immigrant”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Citing the immigration scholar, Francesca Pizzutelli, Fabio\u00a0Rojas explains<\/a> that the phrase “illegal immigrant” wasn’t a part of the English language<\/a> before the 1930s. \u00a0More often, people used the phrase “irregular immigrant.” \u00a0 Instead of an evaluative term, it was a descriptive one referring to people who\u00a0moved around and often crossed borders for work.<\/p>\n

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Rojas points out that the language began to change after anti-immigration laws were passed by Congress in the 1920s. \u00a0The graph above also reveals a steep climb in both “illegal immigrant” and “illegal alien” beginning in the ’70s.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Citing the immigration scholar, Francesca Pizzutelli, Fabio\u00a0Rojas explains that the phrase “illegal immigrant” wasn’t a part of the English language before the 1930s. \u00a0More often, people used the phrase “irregular immigrant.” \u00a0 Instead of an evaluative term, it was a descriptive one referring to people who\u00a0moved around and often crossed borders for work. Rojas points […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":63704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2056,23384,253,23656,2125,3920,85,304,283],"class_list":["post-63703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crimelaw","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-history","tag-immigrants-prejudicediscrimination","tag-immigrationcitizenship","tag-nation-united-states","tag-politics","tag-the-state","tag-prejudicediscrimination"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/08\/17.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63706,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63703\/revisions\/63706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}