Welcome, Not Welcome? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Public Institution's Responses to Governmental Anti-Immigration Policies

• In Event: 61.068 - MTCC Roundtable Session 23
  In Roundtable Session: 61.068-12 - Politics of Movement: Across and Within Education Spaces

Abstract

This paper offers an analysis of statements presented by five public, flagship state-universities in response to recent U.S. Presidential anti-immigration policy. Using critical discourse analysis as both framework and method, I explored the statements presented by these institutions in response to the 2017 travel ban blocking entry to the United States for nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries. In addition, I analyzed responses to the 2018 decision to rescind the federal program that offered legal protections to undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children known as DACA. By analyzing these statements, this study delves into the institutional discourses reproduced by universities in response to the anti-immigration policies of the current administration.

Author

• Carolyn Silva, University of Florida