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For most migrants, developing communication strategies in host countries is vital for finding social connections, navigating the pressures of assimilation, and maintaining links to their original cultures. Migrant World Making explores this process of constructing a homeplace by creating a network of communication tools and strategies to connect with multiple communities. Since what it means to be a migrant differs from person to person, the contributors to this edited collection showcase numerous practices migrants adopt to communicate and connect with others as they forge their own identities in globalized yet highly nationalistic societies. With varying aspirations and motives for seeking new homes, migrants build communities by telling stories, engaging in social media activism, protesting, writing scholarly criticism, and using many other modes of communication. To match this variety, the transnational scholars represented here use a wide array of rhetorical, cultural, and communication methodologies and epistemologies to describe what the experience of migration means to those who have lived it.
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
Soto-Vásquez, A.D., & *Bernal, A. (2026). Like, Subscribe, Profit: Personal Finance YouTube Influencers. Consumption, Markets & Culture. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2025.2607365
Soto-Vásquez, A.D. (2025). Border and Immigration as Etiological Myth in U.S. Right-Wing Politics. Communication Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2025.2574005
Muralidharan, R; Soto-Vasquez A.D., Montenegro, M.S., and Valdez, D. (2025). Comparative Analysis of the Breast Cancer Information Landscape on Facebook: Neural Network Topic Modeling and Metadata Analysis of English and Spanish Content. Journal of Medical Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.2196/79161
Soto-Vásquez, A.D (2025). Laboratory of Reaction: SB 17 in Texas, the Anti-DEI Movement, and Implications for Higher Education. Communication Education 74(3). 297-305. https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2025.2522760
Perdomo Paéz, G., Copeland, S., Soto-Vásquez, A.D., & Fox, K. (2025). Decolonial Methods in Podcast Production Studies: Reflections from Practice-Led Research. Emerging Media 3(1). 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/27523543251323816
Soto-Vásquez, A.D., Gonzalez, A., Garza Garza, E., Shi, W. & Garcia, N. (2025). The Cultural Influence of Familismo in Prompting Vaccination Against COVID-19 among U.S. Latina/o/x Border Residents. Health Communication 40(4). 563-573. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2353418
Mancha, S. & Soto-Vásquez, A.D. (2025). Ambiguous Identification and “Latinx”: Young Mexican Americans, Social Media, and a Disconnect in Marketing. Howard Journal of Communications 36(3). 286-305. https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2024.2350425
Soto-Vásquez, A.D. (2024). A Snapshot of Students at Hispanic Serving Institutions and their Pathways into Media Careers. Journal of Media Education 15(4). 25-31. https://www.calameo.com/journal-of-media-education/read/0000917895db44e0529e7
Moreira, R. & Soto-Vásquez, A.D. (2024). Invoking Latine Ethnic Identity in the Service of Right-Wing Rhetoric: An Analysis of 2022 Republican Latina Candidates in South Texas. Communication, Culture & Critique 17(4). 285-292. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcae037
Culiton Chacon, K., *Marquez, L. & Soto-Vásquez, A.D. (2024). Haciendo Espejos: Multicultural Children’s Literature as Mirror Making. Journal of Latinos and Education 23(4). 1597-1610. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2023.2263781
Valdez, D., Soto-Vásquez, A.D. & Montenegro, M., (2023). Geospatial Vaccine Misinformation Risk on Social Media: Online Insights from an English/Spanish Natural Language Processing (NLP) Analysis of Vaccine-Related Tweets. Social Science & Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116365
Culiton Chacon, K., *Marquez, L. & Soto-Vásquez, A.D., (2023). Haciendo Espejos: Multicultural Children’s Literature as Mirror Making. Journal of Latinos and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2023.2263781
Shi, W., Luo, F., Soto-Vásquez, A.D., & Gonzalez, A., (2023) Public and Nonprofit Agencies Use of Social Media to Communicate Compassion during Crisis. Chinese Public Administration Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221143446
Sanchez, J. & Soto-Vásquez, A.D., (2022) The Rock Music Scene on the U.S/Mexico Border: Cultural Translation and Adaptation. Journal of Pan-American Communication 4(2), 75–86. https://doi.org/10.21555/revistapanamericanadecomunicacin.v4i2.2707
Vilceanu, M.O. & Soto-Vásquez, A.D., (2022). Performing Culture and Problematizing Identity through “Anything for Selena.” Journal of Radio and Audio Media. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2022.2142231
Soto-Vásquez, A.D., Moody, K., Gonzalez, A., & Shi, W., (2022). Consumption, Identity, and Surveillance during COVID-19 as a Crisis of Pleasure. Consumption Markets & Culture. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2022.2137500
Soto-Vásquez, A.D. & Jimenez, N., (2022). A Dramaturgical Analysis of Latina Influencers Use of Props and Settings to Signal Identity. Journalism & Media, 3(3), 407-418. https://doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia3030029.
Soto-Vásquez, A.D. (2022). YouTube and TikTok as Platforms for Learning about Others through Travel Videos: The Case of Non-Chinese Vloggers in Shanghai Disneyland. Online Media and Global Communication, 1(2), 315-338. https://doi.org/10.1515/omgc-2022-0012
Soto-Vásquez, A.D. & Sánchez-Santos, M. (2022). El Cabal, Vacunas, y Donald Trump: An Analysis of Spanish-Language Misinformation Leading Up to the U.S. Capitol Insurrection. Cultural Studies <-> Critical Methodologies, 22(5), 454-465. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F15327086221093949
Soto-Vásquez, A.D., Vilceanu, M.O. & Johnson, K.C. (2022). “Just Hanging with my Friends”: U.S. Latina/o/x Perspectives on Parasocial Relationships in Podcast Listening during COVID-19. Popular Communication 20(4), 324-337. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2022.2071902
Rosa, F. & Soto-Vásquez, A.D., (2022). Hashtags #migrantcaravan and #caravanamigrante and the Aesthetics of Otherness on Instagram. Social Media + Society, 8(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F20563051221087623
Soto-Vásquez, A.D., Gonzalez, E. (2022). “’Not a Monolith!’ Media Narratives of the Latina/o/x Vote after the 2020 U.S. Election.” Howard Journal of Communications. https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2022.2033650
Soto-Vásquez, A.D. (2022). “Coup with a Q: Misinformation, the Capitol Insurrection, and Perspectives from the field of Communication.” Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, 12(1). 73-84. http://blogs.shu.edu/journalofdiplomacy/files/2022/02/The-Era-of-Dis-and-Misinformation-Volume-XXII-No.1.pdf
Soto-Vásquez, A.D. (2021). “Moving with Fitbit: Body Narratives, Fit Subjectivities, and Racialized Discipline.” Communication Studies, 72(6). 1112-1128. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2021.2011359
Walker, C., Ramirez, A. & Soto-Vásquez, A.D. (2021). “Crossing Over: The Migrant ‘Other’ in the MCU.” Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 8(3). 12-25. http://journaldialogue.org/issues/v8-issue-3/crossing-over-the-migrant-other-in-the-marvel-cinematic-universe/.
Soto-Vásquez, A.D. (2021). “Mediating the Magic Kingdom: Disneyland, Instagram, and Fantasy.” Western Journal of Communication, 85(5). 588-608. https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2021.1970797
Soto-Vásquez, A.D., Gonzalez, A., Shi, W., Garcia, N., Hernandez, J. (2020) “COVID-19: Contextualizing Misinformation Flows in a U.S. Latinx Border Community.” Howard Journal of Communications, Special Issue on Media and Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10646175.2020.1860839
Soto-Vásquez, A.D. (2018) “The Rhetorical Construction of U.S. Latinos by American Presidents” Howard Journal of Communication https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/dsmXfAEf7ArBT7BgAIXm/full
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE Soto-Vásquez, A.D. (2017) “Reconceptualizing Digital Privacy: Examining Two Alternatives in the 2016 Presidential Election” Journal of Communication and Media Studies 2 (2): 33-45. doi:10.18848/2470-9247/CGP/v02i02/33-45.