Demonising immigrants

Drywood, Eleanor; Gray, Harriet

doi:10.4324/9781315627922-6

“…According to Murphy (2020) this group are then targeted with particularly harsh, often dehumanising, framing. For example, this can help us understand the frequent negative media attention concerning asylum seekers and immigrants (Drywood and Gray, 2019). As research tells us that sympathy plays a key role in decisionmaking when help is required (Batson, 2011), the social construction of those we will feel sympathy for and those who we will not, is a likely strong predictor as to who we will give donations to, and who we will not.…”

Section: The Social Construction Of Sympathymentioning

confidence: 99%

Fundraising across different causes 1

Body¹,

Breeze²

2021

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Efforts to grow and strengthen the culture of philanthropy in the UK and beyond have largely focused on two dimensions: the total amount of money donated and the effectiveness of philanthropic spending. However, the absence of much comment on, or significant research into, the destination of donations does not alter the situation that some groups succeed in attracting significant philanthropic funds whilst others struggle to secure anyor manydonations. This chapter first seeks to address how can we define what is meant by 'unpopular' causes in contemporary society? Second, we explore examples of 'good practice' by charities that have overcome perceived unpopularity to achieve fundraising success? In conclusion, drawing on the literature review, theoretical approaches and case studies we suggest five types of 'good practice in asking' that are relevant to all types of charities, wherever they perceive themselves to be on the 'popularity spectrum'.

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“…According to Murphy (2020) this group are then targeted with particularly harsh, often dehumanising, framing. For example, this can help us understand the frequent negative media attention concerning asylum seekers and immigrants (Drywood and Gray, 2019). As research tells us that sympathy plays a key role in decisionmaking when help is required (Batson, 2011), the social construction of those we will feel sympathy for and those who we will not, is a likely strong predictor as to who we will give donations to, and who we will not.…”

Section: The Social Construction Of Sympathymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hyde¹,

Mitchell²

2021

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Efforts to grow and strengthen the culture of philanthropy in the UK and beyond have largely focused on two dimensions: the total amount of money donated and the effectiveness of philanthropic spending. However, the absence of much comment on, or significant research into, the destination of donations does not alter the situation that some groups succeed in attracting significant philanthropic funds whilst others struggle to secure anyor manydonations. This chapter first seeks to address how can we define what is meant by 'unpopular' causes in contemporary society? Second, we explore examples of 'good practice' by charities that have overcome perceived unpopularity to achieve fundraising success? In conclusion, drawing on the literature review, theoretical approaches and case studies we suggest five types of 'good practice in asking' that are relevant to all types of charities, wherever they perceive themselves to be on the 'popularity spectrum'.

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“…The main focus here centred upon illustrating the manner in which politicians portray ideas or intentions to the public in more widely accessible forums, such as national news outlets and social media. This structure was chosen due to studies showing that national news outlets tend to use anti-immigration language more frequently than local news (Cisneros, 2008;Drywood & Gray, 2019). National news outlets also tend to use human rights paradigms within reporting to create an "us and them divide", with the UK's asylum obligations frequently framed as being an imposition from "outside" (meaning Europe), and constitutive of something which does not represent or respect "British values" (Drywood & Gray, 2019, p. 153).…”

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The Use of Political Narratives to Legitimise Domination and Exclusion: A Critical Analysis Relating to Asylum Seekers in post-Brexit United Kingdom

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Domination, as both an idea and a process, is constantly changing. With regard to state actions, domination was once considered only in terms of violent acts of control. However, domination also emerges through more covert forms of state-induced power and control. One particular tactic of domination relates to the management and exclusion of certain groups that state agencies determine to be unwanted or threatening. In the face of perceived ‘existential threats’, states have begun to create, reinforce and rationalise exclusion through narratives of state protectionism. Exclusionary policies and practices are even determined as necessary under the language of human rights, a point that diminishes the impact and understanding of rights as inclusionary principles for all. This thesis considers domination in relation to UK political responses to asylum seekers, in the wake of the ‘Brexit’ deal. Using critical narrative and thematic analysis of parliamentary debates in the post-Brexit era (2020-2022), the work demonstrates how the Conservative Government set the narrative ground for a raft of policies and institutional reforms aimed at protecting the nation from asylum seekers who embodied a perceived threat to the nation. In doing so, political narratives created, reinforced, and rationalised state domination and protectionism. More specifically, this thesis demonstrates how human rights are used to sustain state-induced exclusion over an already vulnerable group. The result is that human rights, while initially conceived as a way of limiting state power, are now a tool used by dominant powers to control, exclude and harm certain groups who are deemed ‘illegitimate’ on opaque security, bureaucratic, social, economic and morality grounds.

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