This paper explores the ways in which intergroup relations in the school context and immigrant students' acculturation strategies are constructed in educators' discourse in Greece. For the purposes of the study, 7 focus-group discussions between educators (20 men and 50 women) of primary and secondary education were conducted and analyzed. Analysis indicated an interesting tension between participants' ways of accounting. Specifically, in the context of accounting for intergroup relations, educators depicted school as a racism-free context and constructed harmonious intergroup relations as a result of immigrant students' similarity to their nonimmigrant peers. In the context of discussing acculturation, however, they devalued assimilation and prioritized cultural/national identity maintenance on the part of immigrants.
Public Significance StatementThis paper aims to cast light on the educators' views of immigrant students' integration and to emphasize the contradictions and the complexity that characterize the available ways to talk about acculturation in a specific context.
This study documented the rhetorical constructions of ‘human rights’ in political discourse and the potential implications of their invocation as a frame for LGBTQI+ claims. The minutes of the VI Greek Parliamentary session on a bill related to the legal recognition of gender identity, conducted in 2017, were analyzed. Analysis utilized the concepts of Rhetorical and Critical Discursive Social Psychology, indicating that human rights are flexibly used in arguments oriented to the expansion, the limitation, or the opposition to self-defined gender identity. Varied representations of human rights’ content and boundaries and different constructions of agency concerning their enactment are identified. Although representations of human rights as universal are oriented to the inclusion of LGBTQI+ community, other liberal arguments obscure anti-LGBTQI+ social actors’ accountability. Human rights are also depicted as threatening Westernizing tools. The rhetorical functions of these constructions and their potential implications for queer claims and politics are discussed.
With the global increase of migration and the effects of the economic crisis, health systems around the world are facing new challenges. In this context, we investigated the social representations of health provision to immigrant patients, held by physicians. We conducted 40 interviews with Greek physicians working in the public health system, the private health system, the health system in jails, and nongovernmental organizations. Using principles from thematic analysis, results show a social representation of immigrant patients as a burden to the health system. This social representation is constructed by themes focusing on immigrant patients as a group with mental health issues and on the construction of the health system as unable to provide health to noncitizens. Results are discussed in relation to current issues of social exclusion and the need to protect the human right of health.
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