“…To counter this, he emphasizes refugees' desire to work, to contribute, if the Australian government and people will recognize their value. He spoke of debunking a public perception of refugees as a burden on public welfare services (Haw, 2020) by demonstrating that they are hardworking, desirable citizens:When I came here and realized [that there was a market for Afghan food] and I researched about this Afghan takeaway stuff in 2015 with the help of friends and family I opened this shop. Now I'll be serving a lot of customers every day and in the week it's really packed with loads of customers, locals and those who are working around this area… so everyone's happy, that's why we're just trying to extend more and more for more customers.…”
Section: Case Study 2: the Gift Of Resettlementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Indeed, low‐skilled migrants and refugees have been found to experience more exclusion upon resettlement in wealthy host nations than their skilled counterparts (De Genova & Peutz, 2010) and are often positioned in public and political discourse as a strain on society's resources (Chauvin & Garcés‐Mascareñas, 2014). It therefore comes as no surprise that newcomers' membership in the nation state is widely treated as contingent upon their successful labour market participation – an idea that places the onus of belonging on new arrivals and forms the basis for many arguments about what constitutes the “good” refugee (Haw, 2020; Hetz, 2021).…”
Section: Case Study 2: the Gift Of Resettlementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To counter this, he emphasizes refugees' desire to work, to contribute, if the Australian government and people will recognize their value. He spoke of debunking a public perception of refugees as a burden on public welfare services (Haw, 2020) by demonstrating that they are hardworking, desirable citizens:…”
While “good refugee” stories have the potential to soften attitudes toward forcibly displaced people, there are hidden implications associated with this construct that must be considered. Based on 60 qualitative interviews with asylum seekers and refugees, this paper examines the ways forced migrants adopt and reproduce “good refugee” discourses that unintentionally position their belonging as contingent upon upholding narrowly defined, and arbitrary, ideals about deservingness. By critically analysing this discourse, we highlight the importance of reconsidering the construction of refugees' deservingness along moral and neoliberal lines and instead present a case for approaches that focus on rights‐based, humanitarian grounds for refugee resettlement.
“…To counter this, he emphasizes refugees' desire to work, to contribute, if the Australian government and people will recognize their value. He spoke of debunking a public perception of refugees as a burden on public welfare services (Haw, 2020) by demonstrating that they are hardworking, desirable citizens:When I came here and realized [that there was a market for Afghan food] and I researched about this Afghan takeaway stuff in 2015 with the help of friends and family I opened this shop. Now I'll be serving a lot of customers every day and in the week it's really packed with loads of customers, locals and those who are working around this area… so everyone's happy, that's why we're just trying to extend more and more for more customers.…”
Section: Case Study 2: the Gift Of Resettlementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Indeed, low‐skilled migrants and refugees have been found to experience more exclusion upon resettlement in wealthy host nations than their skilled counterparts (De Genova & Peutz, 2010) and are often positioned in public and political discourse as a strain on society's resources (Chauvin & Garcés‐Mascareñas, 2014). It therefore comes as no surprise that newcomers' membership in the nation state is widely treated as contingent upon their successful labour market participation – an idea that places the onus of belonging on new arrivals and forms the basis for many arguments about what constitutes the “good” refugee (Haw, 2020; Hetz, 2021).…”
Section: Case Study 2: the Gift Of Resettlementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To counter this, he emphasizes refugees' desire to work, to contribute, if the Australian government and people will recognize their value. He spoke of debunking a public perception of refugees as a burden on public welfare services (Haw, 2020) by demonstrating that they are hardworking, desirable citizens:…”
While “good refugee” stories have the potential to soften attitudes toward forcibly displaced people, there are hidden implications associated with this construct that must be considered. Based on 60 qualitative interviews with asylum seekers and refugees, this paper examines the ways forced migrants adopt and reproduce “good refugee” discourses that unintentionally position their belonging as contingent upon upholding narrowly defined, and arbitrary, ideals about deservingness. By critically analysing this discourse, we highlight the importance of reconsidering the construction of refugees' deservingness along moral and neoliberal lines and instead present a case for approaches that focus on rights‐based, humanitarian grounds for refugee resettlement.
“…There are even fewer studies on sentiment towards China in the news. The researchers searched WOS and Google Scholar, using "news discourse", "sentiment" and "other country" as key words in the time frame from 2011 to present and was able to find a number of results focusing on sentiment of the countries/regions being investigated towards other countries (Chan, 2012;Maryam Jahedi, 2012;Sohoni & Mendez, 2012;Alasuutari, 2013;Cheng & Lam, 2013;Bickes, 2014;Kim, 2014;Armony & Velásquez, 2015, Duff, 2015Bui, 2017;Ospina Estupinan, 2017;Ruhrberg et al, 2018;Liu & Jiang, 2019;Idris, 2019;Haw, 2020) Very few are based on news in countries other than western powers, such as Latin America (Armony & Velásquez, 2015;Ospina Estupinan, 2017), VietNam (Bui, 2017) and Nigeria (Anunne & Yan, 2018). One article on Malaysian media is by Wang and Reagan (2020), who carried out research on media sentiment towards Forest City, a Chinese investment project in Malaysia, by comparing sentiments of news from mainstream and independent media in Malaysia, and found that the sentiment of mainstream media towards the project was more positive, which is consistent with local government's attitudes.…”
As China and Malaysia approach their 47th year of diplomatic relationships, cooperation and trust between the two countries have deepened in aspects ranging from politics to economy. Despite this mutual reliance, the relationship between Malaysia and China is not without its conflicts and these conflicts are often manifested in media reports. How China is presented in Malaysia news is a field that has been scarcely explored. As part of the research on media sentiment towards China, this research investigates the general sentiment of China-related news in Malaysian media through sentiment analysis of some selected news coverages. Selecting China-related news in The Star Online from 2012 to 2021 as the data for investigation, the Excel Add-in tool Azure Machine Learning was used to generate polarity of these news reports automatically and corpus tool Wordsmith was used for the analysis of news discourse. A total of 137,475 pieces of news have been collected as the research sample. The finding reveals that: 1) despite the large proportion of news with negative sentiment in China-related news in The Star Online, the monthly trend of sentiment shows a slight increase of positiveness over time; 2) an investigation into the keyword lists of three months with highest proportion of negativeness and collocates of the top keywords, however, shows that negative sentiment of the news may be due to a global conflict at that particular time and does not necessarily indicate negative sentiment towards China. A combination of sentiment analysis and corpus approach on the study of China-related news in Malaysian media enriches the study of news discourse from the perspective of corpus linguistics.
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