Queue-jumpers, terrorists, breeders: representations of Tamil migrants in Canadian popular media

Krishnamurti, Sailaja

doi:10.1080/19438192.2013.722386

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“…Comments were taken from one UK based online news site. This approach has been used to examine discourse relating to a range of issues including: Barack Obama's eligibility to be president of the USA (Hughey, 2012;Hughey & Daniels, 2013), immigration in Canada (Krishnamurti, 2013) and how comments can affect the family of victims of murder (Hlavach & Freivogel, 2011), but has not previously been reported in research attempting to understand views of infant feeding. It can be argued that in using such a data source, that is comments from one online news source, it is not possible to understand who the author is, and that this reduces their authenticity according to Scott's (1990) criteria.…”

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“I…don’t want to see you flashing your bits around”: Exhibitionism, othering and good motherhood in perceptions of public breastfeeding

Grant

2016

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Stigma and concern about public breastfeeding have been identified as contributing towards low breastfeeding rates in high-income countries. Despite this, very little research has examined public perceptions of breastfeeding. Among existing studies, lack of familiarity with breastfeeding, sexist views and hyper-sexualisation of the breast were identified alongside discomfort at viewing breastfeeding by strangers. During 2014, in the United Kingdom (UK), several cases of women being criticised for breastfeeding in public appeared in national newspapers. A Critical Discourse Analysis approach was used to theoretically frame analysis of 884 naturally occurring comments relating to a protest supporting women's right to breastfeed in public from the UK's most popular online news site, Mail Online. Findings are discussed in relation to mothers' roles as citizens and sexual beings, with a particular focus on the visibility of breasts in public space. Women who breastfeed in public were viewed as unattractive, lazy, bad parents and lacking in self-respect. More specifically, women who breastfed in public were viewed as exhibitionist. This was contrasted with the desirability of breastfeeding within the home, which was seen as an appropriate way to feed an infant. The undesirability of public breastfeeding was inherently linked to sexuality, with breastfeeding women viewed as sexual aggressors ("flashers") or inviting sexual contact from men. It is argued that these views originate in unequal gender relationships in society and the framing of breasts as sexual rather than nurturing. These discourses are played out in public space in which mothers are marginalised in a heteronormative patriarchal society.

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“I…don’t want to see you flashing your bits around”: Exhibitionism, othering and good motherhood in perceptions of public breastfeeding

Grant

2016

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“…In Canada the LTTE worked through a number of organisations to solicit, or force, financial assistance for the insurgency (La 2004;Becker 2007), although there is some debate as to whether the efforts of some of these organisations were spontaneous and not orchestrated by the LTTE (Cheran 2007). The perception that the Tamil Diaspora in Canada is a troublesome minority obsessed by imported conflict is a staple in the media, and informed federal government policy that put the LTTE on a list of banned terrorist organisations in January 2006, placing scrutiny on all transnational activity between Canada and Sri Lanka (Krishnamurti 2013). 2 Tamil identity became fixed along lines determined by the LTTE on the one hand and Canadian security interests on the other (George 2011).…”

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In the path of heroes: second-generation Tamil-Canadians after the LTTE

O'Neill¹

2014

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“…This humanitarianism is a core facet of the Canadian imperial project at home and abroad. Domestic and international actions in refugee rescue and support -such as the ideological construction of desirable refugees (Krishnamurti, 2013;Madokoro, 2016;Mountz, 2011), Canada's proud role as a peacekeeping nation (Razack, 2004;Regan, 2010), and the prominence of liberal humanitarianism as a tenet of national identity (Tascón & Ife, 2008;Wayland, 1997) -operate to secure the hegemony of both white settler society within Canada and Canada's place as a global humanitarian leader. Humanitarianism abroad remains central to national identity which veils the state's continued oppression of Indigenous peoples and precariously situated migrants at home (Chatterjee, 2018a;Hyndman, 2003;Mountz, 2004;Sharma, 2006;Zine, 2009).…”

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Narrating Colonial Silences: Racialized Social Work Educators Unsettling our Settlerhood

Elkchirid

Ngô

Kumsa

2021

SSJ

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In this paper, three racialized social work educators unsettle our settled colonial silences as acts of self-decolonization and as a way of responding to the call to action by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). Hailing from the uneven manifestations of global capitalism and coloniality in Morocco, Vietnam, and Ethiopia, we draw on various critical theories to interrogate our unique entanglements with the imperial project of entwined settler colonialism and white supremacy. We narrate our embodied coloniality and how the virulent materiality of global processes of displacement and dispossession plays out in each of our personal stories, everyday encounters, and practices as educators. With the aim of teaching for social justice by modeling, we share the processes of unsettling our colonial settlerhood and puncturing our racialized innocence. Each story addresses three themes: contact and colonial relations with Indigenous peoples of Canada, complicity in global coloniality, and responsibility in responding to the TRC call to action. The first story provides a broad outline of our struggles with the Indigenous/Settler binary created to perpetuate the various forms of displacement and dispossession in settler colonialism. The second story probes the complexities in the Settler category by engaging difference-making as a central technology of dispossession. The third story probes the complexities in the Indigenous category through interrogating the perils and promises of recognition and reconciliation in the context of global hierarchies of nation-states and global Indigenous resistance. We conclude bymoving beyond our divergent trajectories and offering shared critical remarks on the human rights framework, the nation-state framework, and the coloniality of social work.

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Queue-jumpers, terrorists, breeders: representations of Tamil migrants in Canadian popular media

Cited by 32 publications

References 11 publications

“I…don’t want to see you flashing your bits around”: Exhibitionism, othering and good motherhood in perceptions of public breastfeeding

“I…don’t want to see you flashing your bits around”: Exhibitionism, othering and good motherhood in perceptions of public breastfeeding

In the path of heroes: second-generation Tamil-Canadians after the LTTE

Narrating Colonial Silences: Racialized Social Work Educators Unsettling our Settlerhood

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