My Work
In Reporting Immigration Conflict: Opportunities for Peace Journalism, Mariely Valentin-Llopis examines the role of American and Mexican media in promoting harsh views against Central American migrants.
This examination focuses on the U.S. southwestern border crossing conflict in 2014 and 2019, both separate consequential periods in time. Valentin-Llopis contextualizes migrants’ plight with careful consideration to unaccompanied minor migrants and the family separation crisis.
Read book review by Glenda Cooper in Journalism.
Read Mariely's take on border crossing published in Journalist's Resource.
Book's Reviews
This beautifully written book is a major contribution to peace journalism in theory and application. The comparative content analysis of cross-cultural news centered on the ethics of care is unparalleled for its rigor and intellectual precision in the peace journalism framework. The author presents profound challenges for a new generation of empathetic news reporting on structural and cultural violence in international conflicts.
CLIFFORD G. CHRISTIANS,
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
This book offers an intricate perspective through a combination of multiple methodologies, including empirical data and in-depth interviews. In addition to the nuance and rigor of her original research, Valentin-Llopis links key arguments of the book to international literature on conflict-sensitive news reporting. Hence, this piece is also a very valuable addition to the global conversation that seeks to envision how responsible and ethical media coverage should look across the contexts of significant sociopolitical issues.
MARTA N. LUKACOVIC,
Angelo State University
After reading so many books on the topic of immigration, this book provides an original and trustworthy analysis of immigration reporting. Mariely Valentin-Llopis presents a strong data analysis by examining over 800 news items from American and Mexican media. I believe that this book will help readers connect past immigration experiences with current events involving unaccompanied immigrant minors that may restore core values inherent to a true democracy.
XIMENA VALDIVIA,
Florida International University
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BIO
"Puertorriqueña, antillana, caribeña, soy," -Mariely
Mariely was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and graduated in 1995 from the Central High School of Visual Arts in Santurce. There, her teachers nurtured her passion for social sciences, speech, and writing, encouraging her to pursue public speaking and even driving her to compete in forensics contests. In 2004, she served as speechwriter for the first woman governor of Puerto Rico, Sila María Calderón.
Upon earning her doctoral degree, Mariely received a full-time teaching appointment at Barry University.
In 2022, she resigned to fully immerse herself in her next book project, which explores the social history of Puerto Rico’s public housing communities (caseríos). Today, she serves as an adjunct faculty member at both Florida International University and Barry University.
Mariely lives in Florida with her husband Orlando Llopis and her brother, Jose.
Jose is a person living with severe intellectual disability and loves to party!