01661nas a2200277   4500000000100000008004100001260001300042653002900055653003100084653000900115653002600124653001100150653001200161653001500173653001300188653001400201653001800215100001200233245009200245856005100337300001000388490000700398050001500405520094900420022001401369       2010                            d  c2010 Mar10aEmigrants and Immigrants10aEmigration and Immigration10aFear10aHistory, 21st Century10aHumans10aleprosy10aMass Media10aPolitics10aPrejudice10aUnited States1 aWhite C00aDéjà vu: leprosy and immigration discourse in the twenty-first century United States.  uhttps://leprosyreview.org/article/81/1/01-7026  a17-260 v81  aWHITE 20103 a<p>Leprosy, or Hansen's disease, continues to be feared and poorly understood in the United States, where knowledge of the disease is limited and prevalence is low. The presence of leprosy among immigrants, however, provides fuel for those with an anti-immigration agenda. In recent years, there have been several examples of popular media distortions of statistics and of information on leprosy's properties and contagiousness. As in previous eras of U.S. history, public fears about leprosy seem to be related to anti-immigration or nativist sentiment, which often mask underlying concerns about the potential economic threat of immigrant populations. In this article, I analyse the role of the U.S. media and other stakeholders who may have an interest in generating public fear associated with leprosy, in presenting and at times manipulating data about the disease to create an association between leprosy and undocumented immigration.</p>  a0305-7518