Bridges or walls? A metaphorical dichotomy of Pope Francis versus Donald Trump's views of transnational migration

Within a wider research line on policy-driven institutional discourses on migration by international/national institutions, NGO and political leaders, this contribution is aimed at illustrating the bipolarized social representations of immigrants inspiring 24 speeches by Pope Francis and US Presiden...

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Published inJournal of prevention & intervention in the community Vol. 50; no. 3; p. 317
Main Authors de Rosa, Annamaria Silvana, Bocci, Elena, Latini, Martina
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.07.2022
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Pope Francis
Donald Trump
metaphors
Migration
political discourse
social representations
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Summary:Within a wider research line on policy-driven institutional discourses on migration by international/national institutions, NGO and political leaders, this contribution is aimed at illustrating the bipolarized social representations of immigrants inspiring 24 speeches by Pope Francis and US President Donald Trump. Statistical analyses using IRAMUTEQ included "specificity analysis" of discursive forms (words) and "cluster analysis." Results show that the Pope's discourse on migration (articulated into four clusters) is richer than the oversimplified Trump's discourse (originating just one cluster): the words "bridges" and "walls" emerge as representational nuclei of their bipolarized views of transnational migration, as metaphorical dichotomies of inclusive/exclusive policies. Emphasizing the need to build to protect the Americans, inspired by the sovereign ideology (AMERICA FIRST!), does not at all suspect that in the globalized interconnected world the AMERICA FIRST may become just AMERICA ALONE!
ISSN:1540-7330
DOI:10.1080/10852352.2021.1918611