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O'Brien, Gerald V. 2003. Indigestible Food, Conquering Hordes, and Waste Materials: Metaphors of Immigrants and the Early Immigration Restriction Debate in the United States. Metaphor and Symbol 18 (1) : 33–47.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Erlbaum
ISBN
1092-6488

Annotation

This paper describes the implementation of organism, object, natural catastrophe/war and animal metaphors in the immigration restriction debate of the early 1900s, as a means of dehumanizing immigrants or portray them as a threat to social functioning.