No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’

Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe

Bibliographic Data

ID9684271
AuthorsMadeleine Geibel (0000-0003-4145-8766, Independent researcher, corresponding author), Farida Fozdar (0000-0003-3463-7299, Curtin University), Fiona McGaughey (0000-0001-5992-9939, The University of Western Australia)
Year2024
Volume72
Issue7
Pages1279-1300
Publication date2024-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCurrent Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-3921 • E-ISSN: 1461-7064
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00113921231194093
OpenAlexW4386167691
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited42

This article analyses the ways Australia’s overseas ‘public information campaign’ on asylum based around the phrase ‘No way. You will not make Australia home’ has been adopted by far-right movements in Europe. Considering examples of anti-asylum online video campaigns and activism in a range of European countries, we note semiotic and discursive similarities with the Australian campaign. We discuss the implications of such discursive transfer from official Australian government policy to far-right campaigns promoting a blatantly racist agenda in Europe. We also consider the broader question of the fundamental challenge to international law inherent in the promulgation of information that denies the right to seek asylum in Refugee Convention signatory states

Asylum seeker · Convention · Government (linguistics · Linguistics · Media studies · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Public Administration

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