Constructing a discursive crisis: risk, problematization and illegal Chinese in Canada

Hier, Sean P.; Greenberg, Joshua

doi:10.1080/01419870020036701

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“…(501) The racialized discourse produced within a security frame served as a process of Othering, legitimizing interventionist actions by the state. This process has been observed by all studies we examined, albeit from different perspectives, including critical race theory and whiteness (van der Zon, 2000), new racism (Ibrahim, 2004), standpoint feminism (Mountz, 2004), and critical media theory (Hier & Greenberg, 2002;Mahtani & Mountz, 2001).…”

Section: The 1999 Fujian "Boat People"mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These studies approached the topic from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Joshua Greenberg and Sean Hier arguably led the field with their theoretically informed work on "soft" and "hard" news about the arrival of the boats (Greenberg, 2000;Hier & Greenberg, 2002). Minelle Mahtani and Alison Mountz's (2001) government-funded study refrained from degrading poor journalism but rather aimed at practical policy suggestions for municipalities and provincial governments in British Columbia.…”

Section: The 1999 Fujian "Boat People"mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our empirical contribution to scholarship, however, lies in developing and applying the risk society perspective. In this way, we follow in the footsteps of Hier and Greenberg (2002) who make an interesting connection between health, crime, and national security in their study of the Fujian "boat migrants." For example, a Victoria Times Colonist article from September 3, 1999, quotes Reform Party leader Preston Manning: "immigration law should ensure would-be refugees are properly screened, but if people [i.e., the Fujian migrants] can't get around all those provisions, then you expose yourselves to all those dangers … criminal elements and people with violent political habits and communicable diseases" (quoted in Hier & Greenberg, 2002, p. 504).…”

Section: Bradimore and Bauder Tamil Refugee Migration In Newsprint Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…What conditions allowed for formerly "safe" objects to become understood as a "risky" object to be feared, controlled, and managed? While traditional risk theory focuses on issues of technology and environment, other studies have applied risk theory to media representation of issues of migration and the migrant body (e.g., Adeyanju & Neverson, 2007;Hier & Greenberg, 2002).…”

Section: Bradimore and Bauder Tamil Refugee Migration In Newsprint Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similar to the 2009 arrival of Tamils, the 599 Chinese-although highly visible-represented only a small fraction of the overall refugee arrivals. Yet the media, rather than discussing the numbers in context, framed the story within a discourse of risk and the degrading sovereignty of the Canadian nation state (Hier & Greenberg, 2002).…”

Section: The 1999 Fujian "Boat People"mentioning

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Constructing the stereotype of immigrants' criminality: Accounts of fear and risk in talk about immigration to Greece

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This paper explores the discursive construction of immigrants' criminality in interview accounts obtained by a sample of Greek people in Thessaloniki (Northern Greece). Analysis, which adopts a discursive approach to stereotypes and category construction, indicates that fear and insecurity on the part of Greek people are represented as a sine qua non consequence of immigration to Greece. Two different lines of argument are used to account for the arousal of fear. According to the first, fear constitutes a corollary of a widespread stereotypical representation of immigrants as criminals. The stereotype of immigrants' criminality is considered to be ill-warranted and it is attributed to the media or to other unspecified people. According to another, more regularly used, line of argument, however, fear is predicated upon the sordid living conditions of immigrants in Greece which make the probability of them being involved in illegal acts particularly high. In this case, fear is seen to derive from a 'rational estimate' of the probability of immigrant's involvement in criminal acts. Nested within the discourse of 'risk' the stereotypical image of immigrants' criminality is sustained and used to account for the need to protect the 'ingroup' from 'immigrant groups' through immigration control and surveillance.

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Constructions of ‘Illegal’ Immigration and Entitlement to Citizenship: Debating an Immigration Law in Greece

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This study explores the ways in which constructions of immigrants' illegality and accounts on the meaning of naturalization and citizenship serve as argumentative resources against a particular immigration law in Greece. Data consisted of transcripts of parliamentary speeches by political party leaders who opposed the law. Analysis used the tools and concepts of discursive and rhetorical social psychology and identified three main lines of arguing. The first set clear boundaries between 'legal' and 'illegal' immigration and constructed immigrants' (il)legal entry as a category defining criterion. The second represented legal status as subject to change and constructed immigrants as 'legalized', in order to argue against their entitlement to citizenship. Finally, in another sort of accounting, regularization and naturalization procedures were trivialized, as the speakers negotiated the necessary, and also the ideal conditions of co-existence and participation in a nation-state. The findings are discussed in relation to their potential contribution (i) to the existing literature on the constituted and constitutive nature of the category of illegal immigration and (ii) to a social psychological approach to citizenship.

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Constructing a discursive crisis: risk, problematization and illegal Chinese in Canada

Cited by 99 publications

References 6 publications

Mystery Ships and Risky Boat People: Tamil Refugee Migration in the Newsprint Media

Mystery Ships and Risky Boat People: Tamil Refugee Migration in the Newsprint Media

Constructing the stereotype of immigrants' criminality: Accounts of fear and risk in talk about immigration to Greece

Constructions of ‘Illegal’ Immigration and Entitlement to Citizenship: Debating an Immigration Law in Greece

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