Figures of Crisis: The Delineation of (Un)Deserving Refugees in the German Media

Holzberg, Billy; Kolbe, Kristina; Zaborowski, Rafal

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“…In the aftermath of these events, the rhetoric of the newspapers moves towards a focus on an apparently unassailable cultural difference between refugees and their European hosts. While such narratives do, as we note above, appear throughout the sample period, after Cologne the representations of cultural difference become much more commonplace and accepted, and tend to centre mainly on gender roles and gender ideologies, with 'Europe' portrayed as a 'modern' space of gender equality and the culture of the refugees derided as innately misogynist and, therefore, 'backwards' (see Holzberg et al, 2018 for similar findings from Germany).…”

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Refugees as/at risk: The gendered and racialized underpinnings of securitization in British media narratives

Gray

Franck

2019

Security Dialogue

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It is well established in the literature that migration has become increasingly securitized. In this article, we examine the racialized and gendered grids of intelligibility that make securitizing moves possible in the migration context. Specifically, we argue that the securitization of migration during the so-called EU refugee crisis comes into being through intertwined and mutually dependent representations of racialized, masculinized threat and racialized, feminized vulnerability, which are woven into the scaffolding of colonial modernity. We construct our argument through an analysis of relevant newspaper articles published in British newspapers between September 2015 and March 2016. Accordingly, our discussion advances understandings of the dominant narratives through which the 'refugee crisis' has been understood. In addition, in highlighting the naturalized inequalities that underpin securitizing speech acts, the article also contributes to literature that seeks to add an improved understanding of power to securitization theory.

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Refugees as/at risk: The gendered and racialized underpinnings of securitization in British media narratives

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Franck

2019

Security Dialogue

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“…Moreover, the securitarian logic characterizes asylum seekers as an uncontrollable, immoral and barbaric mass of people wanting to enter the European continent (Greussing and Boomgaarden 2017). Adopting this perspective is expected to foster support for restrictive policies, as this frame is closely linked to the introduction of higher surveillance, more border controls and stricter immigration legislations to manage the risk that refugees pose to internal security (Holzberg et al 2018;Ibrahim 2005). To operationalize this frame, we study feelings of unsafety, as the existence of a relationship with asylum policy preferences would illustrate that perceptions of unsafety are partly attributable to fear of violence and criminal activities from refugees or asylum seekers (Rustenbach 2010).…”

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The Refugee Reception Crisis : Polarized Opinions and Mobilizations

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Mazzola

Martiniello

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Les députés européens et leur rôle. Sociologie interprétative des pratiques parlementaires. Julien Navarro. 2009. The future of mutual recognition in criminal matters in the European Union/L'avenir de la reconnaissance mutuelle en matière pénale dans l'Union européenne. Ed. Gisèle Vernimmen-Van Tiggelen, Laura Surano and Anne Weyembergh. 2009. Sophie Heine, Une gauche contre l'Europe? Les critiques radicales et altermondialistes contre l'Union européenne Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO) as part of the framework programme Belgian Research Action Through Interdisciplinary Networks (BRAIN-be, contract nr. BR/175/A5/PUMOMIG). We are grateful to BELSPO for providing financial support to our research and dissemination activities, and for funding the publication of this book in open access. We wish to thank all research participants in Belgium and Europe, including migrants and non-migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented people, activists, volunteers, members of organizations, institutions and municipalities. We also thank the experts who accepted to review this manuscript and provided us with important insights to improve some of its sections.

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“…RAS are most often constructed within discourses of securitization, economization, and victimization, embodying mostly negative attitudes [14]- [18]. The victimization frame can be problematic when RAS are depicted as helpless sufferers who are wholly reliant on external aid [19], by implying that they are burdens.…”

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The 2017 Rohingya Crisis: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of Representation in The Daily Star

Nahar¹

2019

IJSSH

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There is a noteworthy lack of research on media coverage of refugees and other minority groups in South Asia. In comparison, research on Western media coverage is more common and well established. This imbalance can lead to our understanding of news media representation of these groups to be incomplete and limited. The aim of this study is to examine the in The Daily Star, a popular Bangladeshi news media. The corpus contains 406 online articles reporting the Rohingya issue, published on The Daily Star's website from August 2017 to August 2018. Multidisciplinary Corpus-assisted Discourse Analysis (CADS), a mixed method combining quantitative and qualitative techniques from Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, is utilized to analyze the data, informed by Mutua's (2001) work in critical human rights theory. Using the corpus analysis software AntConc 3.5.7 and Van Leeuwen's (1996, 2008) socio-semantic network model, collocations and concordances of key terms are explored in order to identify categories of representation and related discourses. Findings suggest that The Daily Star employs the savage-victim-savior (SVS) framework, typically found in dominant human rights literature, in constructing the main social actors of the crisis, namely the Rohingya, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. The Rohingya crisis is seen to be constructed as a humanitarian issue wherein the plight of the Rohingya is highlighted to construct them as victims. Bangladesh is constructed positively in processes of sheltering the Rohingya, while Myanmar is constructed negatively in processes of abusing the Rohingya. At the same time, the Rohingyas' repatriation is a salient topic of discussion. This work is intended to enrich studies on refugee and migration issues, besides adding to existing literature on the Rohingya.

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Figures of Crisis: The Delineation of (Un)Deserving Refugees in the German Media

Cited by 96 publications

References 27 publications

Refugees as/at risk: The gendered and racialized underpinnings of securitization in British media narratives

Refugees as/at risk: The gendered and racialized underpinnings of securitization in British media narratives

The Refugee Reception Crisis : Polarized Opinions and Mobilizations

The 2017 Rohingya Crisis: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of Representation in The Daily Star

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