When Migrants Become Political Pawns by Sumana Chattopadhyay - 9781666957433

When Migrants Become Political PawnsDecoding the American Migrant Busing Crisis\nAuthor(s): Sumana Chattopadhyay\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781666957433, 978-1666957433\nSynopsis\nSumana Chattopadhyay provides a thoughtful and passionate perspective on the busing phenomenon which treated migrants as political pawns in the highly charged debates about US immigration policy. In doing so, she creates compelling evidence about the prominence of nativism narratives in the media coverage of immigration. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in understanding how the media impacts how the audience thinks about specific conflicting issues. Olatunji Ogunyemi, Professor of Journalism, University of Lincoln, UK\n\nIn this book, Sumana Chattopadhyay analyzes the US migrant busing crisis of 2022 as a case study to examine ideas of nativism, identity politics, divisive rhetorics, and the red-blue-.