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  Sociological InquiryVolume 69 Issue 3, Pages 337 - 363 Published Online: 9 Jan 2007 © 2010 Alpha Kappa Delta: The International Sociology Honor Society Published on behalf of Alpha Kappa Delta: The International Sociology Honor Society
Abstract | References | Full Text: PDF (Size: 1584K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Portraits of Emigration: Sour Milk and Honey in the Promised Land Copyright 1999 by the University of Texas Press ABSTRACTThis article analyzes the moral tones of public emigration stories through an exploratory analysis of newspaper stories published between 1990 and 1993 in a region in Poland with a century-old tradition of out-migration. Media stories are fertile ground for examining values and myths because they negotiate between the micro-level process of individuals constructing meanings and the macro-level process of political economies producing meanings. I identified two sets of contradictory stories: (1) stories about the sending country cast emigrants as either home builders or home wreckers, and (2) stories about the receiving country depicted America as either Horatio Alger's land of possibility or a morally degenerate place where greed corrupts the soul. To explain these contradictions, I compare the institution of migration to (post)modern culture and note that both contribute to social diversity and structural differentiation which lead to value inconsistencies. |
