ABSTRACT
White employers use a “Pro-Latino” racial framing to justify the exploitation of immigrants in the workforce. Such racial framing relies on positive racial narratives that highlight the advantages of hiring Latino laborers over their white counterparts and are thinly disguised praises of subservience and exploitability amongst the vulnerable and marginalized Latino immigrant working class. Some evidence of counter-framing exists from minority employers that resist exploitative practices and disparaging treatment of Latino laborers.
