ABSTRACT
The following paper is part of a comprehensive research project on social representations about immigrants in the political and legislative discourses in Argentina. In this case, we will focus on the treatment of immigrants in the political discourse with reference to a particular situation: the occupation of Parque Indoamericano in 2010. For this purpose, we will consider public speeches delivered by former Buenos Aires city Major Mauricio Macri and former President Cristina Fernández. We will adopt the Framing theory (Lakoff, 1987LAKOFF, George. 1987. Women, Fire and Dangerous Things. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press., 2002LAKOFF, George. 2002. Moral Politics. How Liberals and Conservatives Think. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press., 2010LAKOFF, George. 2010. Why it Matters How We Frame the Environment. Environmental Communication, 4(1): 70-81.) in order analyse the way the two of them classify immigrants, and to what social or natural phenomena they are linked. We will notice that, although both politicians value immigration differently and have different attitudes towards that phenomenon, in either case, the same connections are established, i.e. the same social representations appear associated to immigration.
Keywords:
Immigration; Framing; Social Representations; Common Sense