2003
DOI: 10.1177/0957926503014004002
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`A Phantom Menace and the New Apartheid': The Social Construction of Asylum-Seekers in the United Kingdom

Abstract: A succession of well-publicized incidents in Britain, and elsewhere, has highlighted the dilemma of refugees and seekers of asylum. A number of desperate human tragedies allied to some very dubious institutional practices and decisions have been a cause for concern. Drawing upon that vast corpus of information we call `common knowledge', together with other more exclusive sources of knowledge, British national newspapers and their readers, among others, are involved in the social construction of asylum-seekers… Show more

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“…The speaker makes an exception of people who are 'genuinely "disabled"', thereby orienting to the possibility that some people's claims to disability may not be 'genuine', which draws implicitly on a genuine-bogus distinction familiar from research on the representation of asylum seekers (e.g. Lynn & Lea, 2003). As in comment 1, working hard or making an effort is treated as a mundane activity which (almost) anyone should be able to do.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The speaker makes an exception of people who are 'genuinely "disabled"', thereby orienting to the possibility that some people's claims to disability may not be 'genuine', which draws implicitly on a genuine-bogus distinction familiar from research on the representation of asylum seekers (e.g. Lynn & Lea, 2003). As in comment 1, working hard or making an effort is treated as a mundane activity which (almost) anyone should be able to do.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Lynn & Lea, 2003;Richardson, 2001). Nevertheless, in the interest of maintaining anonymity as far as possible, the comments reproduced in the present paper are presented minus identifying information such as the name and location of the poster.…”
Section: Data and Analytic Procedures Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Perhaps as a result of this negative media response, the government has interpreted the fall in the numbers seeking asylum, as in 2003, to indicate that the UK is not allowing 'bogus' asylum seekers into the country. This has led to confusion between categories of migrants, by alternating the terms 'bogus' and 'illegal' migrants with 'asylum seekers' (Lynn and Lea, 2003). Koser (2001: 90) comments that restrictive asylum policies have 'only introduced further complexity by blurring the distinctions not just between economic migrants and political refugees, but now also legal and illegal migrants'.…”
Section: The Experiences Of Asylum Seekers and Refugees In The Ukmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Despite this heterogeneity, the term dasylum seekerT is commonly and widely used. The topic of asylum seekers, for example, plays a major role in political and public debates in the Netherlands as well as in many other Western European countries (see Lynn & Lea, 2003;Muus, 1997). In the Netherlands, this topic was one of the main issues in the political campaigns of the recent local and general elections of 2002 and 2003.…”
Section: Understanding Asylum Seekersmentioning
confidence: 99%