Exploring the American Anti-Immigration Discourse in Scholarship, Politics, and Activism through Michel Foucault and Edward Said

Using Michel Foucault and Edward Saidâ s theoretical contributions regarding discursive formations, this thesis performs a critical discourse analysis of the anti-immigration discourse in America; a flawed rhetoric that uses the power of language to create is own truth. The ultimate research questi...

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Main Author: Okeson, Natalie Whittemore
Other Authors: Political Science
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35864
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11302009-112903/