Boundary Regimes and the Gendered Racialized Production of Muslim Masculinities: Cases from Canada and Germany

Ukrainian refugees in Polish press

“…Finally, the texts reporting on the movement of Ukrainian refugees, especially those published in Gazeta Wyborcza , display an unprecedented awareness of fake news (when immigration-related discourses are concerned). In fact, many previous contributions have emphasised the fact that European media often report fake or unverified news regarding MENA refugees indiscriminately alongside true information – for example, in their coverage of the sexual attacks perpetrated by men with an ‘Arab or North-African appearance’ on New Year’s Eve 2015 in Cologne (Yurdakul and Korteweg, 2021: 47). Strikingly, the fake news discussed in the texts analysed here also concern black men: while the analysis of fake news emerging during the Russo-Ukrainian war is outside of the scope of the present investigation, it would undoubtedly be illuminating to examine in more detail how and why it tended to target Africans and Asians – a minority among the people displaced due to this conflict.…”

Navigating the European Migration Regime

“…It has been argued that such a representation is often instrumentalised to enforce and legitimise restrictive migration policies (Scheibelhofer, 2017). This was the case, for example, after the 'Event Köln' (Dietze, 2016) when sexual assaults by 'North African-looking men' were reported on New Year's Eve 2015 (see also Yurdakul and Korteweg, 2021). The incidents were highly publicised in the media, and political demands to expel 'those who were believed to endanger post-feminist Germany' (Boulila and Carri, 2017: 286) followed.…”

Far‐right boundary construction towards the “other”: Visual communication of Danish People’s Party on social media

“…We conceive of visual boundary strategies as forming part of the symbolic and discursive dimension of boundary regimes, which recreate ethnonationalist, gendered, and racialized power structures through the stigmatization of outgroups (Yurdakul & Korteweg, 2021 ). Discourse here is understood as a multimodal interrelated set of texts, images, and communicative practices within a certain context that constructs our experience in the world (Van Leeuwen, 2015 ).…”

“…Several studies consider the welfare chauvinist statements by Danish parties, where particularly DF utilizes highly exclusionary frames (Bak Jørgensen & Thomsen, 2016;Siim & Meret, 2016). In DF's discursive construction of a boundary politics toward migrants (Yurdakul & Korteweg, 2021), welfare should only be offered to an ethnically exclusive in-group, where particularly Muslim migrants are "othered. "…”

“…Boundary construction is a common mechanism used in far‐right political mobilization, involving the construction of a unique and exclusive in‐group, promoting conceptions of belonging and solidarity, while simultaneously othering the out‐groups that allegedly threaten this cohesion. Sociologists, political scientists, and sociolinguists have studied the symbolic boundary construction toward migrants and ethnic minorities in far‐right mobilization, media discourse, and everyday stigmatization (Bakkær‐Simonsen, 2018 ; Lamont & Molnar, 2002 ; Wodak & Boukala, 2015 ; Yurdakul & Korteweg, 2021 ). In this paper, we explore how boundary processes are constructed through images and visual communication as parts of multimodal discourse.…”