Intersecting hostilities around the European migration crisis
The case of Carola Rackete and the Sea-Watch 3
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7736623 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eleonora Esposito (0000-0001-7445-859X, Universidad de Navarra, corresponding author), Angela Zottola (0000-0003-2356-5023, University of Turin) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 522-537 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Discourse Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-5904 • E-ISSN: 1740-5912 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17405904.2023.2230600 |
| OpenAlex | W4384155773 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 29 |
On June 29, 2019, Carola Rackete docked the rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, in defiance of a ban imposed by Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. The migrants rescued by the Sea-Watch 3 had been blocked at sea for the previous two weeks, making it to international headlines and sparking a heated debate around sovereignty and humanitarianism in the face of the European migration crisis. On her arrival, Rackete was arrested for refusing to obey a military vessel and aiding illegal immigration.This paper investigates social media and international news discourses around the Sea-Watch 3 docking, to be regarded as a critical incident capable of catalysing attention and generating a significant media resonance. Results show how both social and traditional media contributed to the proliferation of misogynous attacks against Captain Rackete, at the intersection between right-wing populist discourses of Italian ‘sovranism’ and European anti-immigrationism. By triangulating the role of the media, intersectional hostility and populist ideology, this paper sheds light on how these three factors feed into each other in the discursive construction of the ‘Fortress Europe’ of present times
Extreme right · Immigration · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social media · Sociology · Sovereignty · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
The Intersectional Internet
Methods of Critical Discourse Studies
The Politics of Fear
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies
Right-Wing Populism in Europe
Statistics in Corpus Linguistics
Online hate, digital discourse and critique
Migration and Media
“How dare you call her a pig, I know several pigs who would be upset if they knew”
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
Fortress Europe
Imagining the Peoples of Europe
Migration and the Refugee Dissensus in Europe
Anti-gender campaigns in Europe
Enregistering “gender ideology”
The Sketch Engine
CQPweb — combining power, flexibility and usability in a corpus analysis tool
Negotiating With Gender Stereotypes on Social Networking Sites
Mapping the Margins
Transgender Identities in the Press
Self-Reflexive Journalism
A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press
Exclusionary Populism and Islamophobia
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |