The media’s role to bringing to light the work that social movement organizations conduct in order to push their causes is sometimes not properly enforce; and the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) has gone through this obstacle. CARECEN is a nonprofit organization that offers resources to Central American immigrants and encourages activism in order to advocate for immigrant rights. Therefore, by analyzing the result of a research conducted through the Access World News database, and researching the number of articles that mention each policy in the last ten years and comparing it with the number of articles in which CARECEN is mentioned, this paper will demonstrate that in the last ten years, the media has not given enough coverage
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CARECEN’s website contains a timeline that emphasizes the most important milestones of the organization. One of this achievements was reached in 2006, when CARECEN participating in mobilizing 1 million people against the “HR 4437, the Sensenbrenner bill, which criminalized undocumented immigrants” (“CARECEN” 1). The importance of this event lead to choosing this bill as a subject of researching among the media coverage in relationship with CARECEN. Moreover, since the DACA program has been of great importance for the immigrant communities, including Central American immigrants, it was necessary to examine its media coverage. I also chose to look at the number of articles in which the media mentioned the “immigration reform” in the last ten years in order to understand the media’s association of CARECEN, HR 4437 and DACA with these programs. As an organization that concentrates around the Central American immigrant population, their relationship to these terms and issues in the media environment is important to be …show more content…
In 2006, there were one-hundred and nine articles that discussed the HR 4437, a number that dropped to three by 2008 to later have no other mentions in the following years. This might be due to the fact that after the HR 4437 bill was introduced in December, 2005 (Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005), it was immediately welcomed with disagreements from the public and was revoked. On the other hand, the DACA program was largely covered by the media. Though it was introduced in 2010, it did not received much attention until 2012 when it reached more than two thousand articles that discusses this policy. On 2013 there were more than one thousand and on 2014 it reached its highest number of articles, remaining between two to one thousand articles after that. Despite this, there were only between twenty to thirty articles per year that covered CARECEN’s activities. This might be due to the media paying less attention to the issues faced by the Central American communities since Mexicans tend to be the largest Latino population. This might also be the result of communication barriers due to language, culture, and ethnicity between the organization and mainstream news sources. Regardless, though the mainstream media is greatly covering issues and policies concerning the
CARECEN’s website contains a timeline that emphasizes the most important milestones of the organization. One of this achievements was reached in 2006, when CARECEN participating in mobilizing 1 million people against the “HR 4437, the Sensenbrenner bill, which criminalized undocumented immigrants” (“CARECEN” 1). The importance of this event lead to choosing this bill as a subject of researching among the media coverage in relationship with CARECEN. Moreover, since the DACA program has been of great importance for the immigrant communities, including Central American immigrants, it was necessary to examine its media coverage. I also chose to look at the number of articles in which the media mentioned the “immigration reform” in the last ten years in order to understand the media’s association of CARECEN, HR 4437 and DACA with these programs. As an organization that concentrates around the Central American immigrant population, their relationship to these terms and issues in the media environment is important to be …show more content…
In 2006, there were one-hundred and nine articles that discussed the HR 4437, a number that dropped to three by 2008 to later have no other mentions in the following years. This might be due to the fact that after the HR 4437 bill was introduced in December, 2005 (Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005), it was immediately welcomed with disagreements from the public and was revoked. On the other hand, the DACA program was largely covered by the media. Though it was introduced in 2010, it did not received much attention until 2012 when it reached more than two thousand articles that discusses this policy. On 2013 there were more than one thousand and on 2014 it reached its highest number of articles, remaining between two to one thousand articles after that. Despite this, there were only between twenty to thirty articles per year that covered CARECEN’s activities. This might be due to the media paying less attention to the issues faced by the Central American communities since Mexicans tend to be the largest Latino population. This might also be the result of communication barriers due to language, culture, and ethnicity between the organization and mainstream news sources. Regardless, though the mainstream media is greatly covering issues and policies concerning the