Infesting our country
Discursive illusions in anti-immigration border talk
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12701972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher J Jenks (0000-0002-2563-5737, Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, corresponding author), Aditi Bhatia (0000-0002-1039-0810, Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 81-94 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Intercultural Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-8477 • E-ISSN: 1747-759X |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14708477.2020.1722144 |
| OpenAlex | W3004502103 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 30 |
This paper investigates how, despite the need to flee dangerous regions, online and print newspapers rely on negative portrayals of migrants and immigrants to forward nationalist positions, including the belief that so-called foreigners are a threat to the security and economic well-being of a nation. Specifically, using the Discourse of Illusion as our main analytic framework, the analysis demonstrates the ways in which dehumanization is central to forwarding ideological positions against migration. Our findings are then used to discuss larger issues of how media is transforming the ways in which political ideologies are constructed and circulated
Critical discourse analysis · Dehumanization · Ideology · Illusion · Immigration · Media studies · Nationalism · Newspaper · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Social Media and Politics
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Nationalism for sale
Pursuing social justice in gender and migration research
Migrants’ Nation-AS-Body metaphors as expressions of transnational identities
Banal, civic, and cultural nationalism in the United Arab Emirates
Asian students in American higher education
Vulnerability and multilingualism in intercultural research with migrants
Interculturality, linguistic diversity, and social inclusion
Media representations of ethnic diversity in times of ‘crisis’
Bridging Cultures in Academia
Politicians and Rhetoric
The Politics of Fear
Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis
Fleeing, Sneaking, Flooding
The Logic of Political Coverage on Twitter
Go home
The Discursive Construction of National Identity
Debating Cultural Hybridity
The Politics of Insecurity
Digital language practices in superdiversity
Practical historians and adversaries
The Discourse of the New World Order
Creating Human Insecurity
Making Refugees
Support for Far Right Ideology and Anti-Migrant Attitudes among Youth in Europe
Uncertainty, Threat, and the Role of the Media in Promoting the Dehumanization of Immigrants and Refugees
Commentary
Categorization and the moral order
The representation of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in British newspapers
Continuity and change in anti-immigrant discourse in Italy
Illegals/Ilegales
The role of stereotyping in system-justification and the production of false consciousness
Constructing Insecurity
Migrant cities
The refugee crisis and fear
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |