Invitation or Invasion? The 'family home' metaphor in the Australian media's construction of immigration

Burke, Rachel

doi:10.1080/07256860220122403

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“…In a world preoccupied with terrorism and internal threat, the ideas of 'offering a home' (6) and controlling or securing our borders (1, 9) contained within Howard's speech also reminds us that 'an English man's home is his castle', and raises again the construct of 'homeland security' (other authors have also noted the way in which constructions of hospitality and home are often offset with reference to invasion and threat, for example, see Burke, 2002). Only the right kinds of people, people like us, should be permitted to share our home, and failure to adequately defend our borders leaves us exposed to threats from within-threats to both our way of life (8) and our lives (7).…”

Section: Elaborating Britishnessmentioning

confidence: 93%

‘It's not racist. It's common sense’. A critical analysis of political discourse around asylum and immigration in the UK

Capdevila

Callaghan

2007

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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This paper looks at a political speech given by the leader of the opposition party during the run up to the UK elections in 2005. Using this speech as a starting point, we attempt to trace the path of ‘racism’ within a text that makes explicit claims to being ‘not racist’. Drawing on a number of theoretical and methodological resources, this paper approaches the analysis by focusing on a number of conceptually heterogeneous elements that, in relation with each other, function to produce, re‐produce and stabilize ‘racism’. One of the difficulties commonly encountered in social psychological work, we would suggest, is that an explicit statement of allegiance to a particular methodological and theoretical tradition can also result in a restriction of theorization to a particular ‘level of analysis’. That is to say, a methodological process that constructs a pre‐given category, presets the criteria by which ‘racism’ can be identified and fixes the ‘level of analysis’ at which it can be studied risks ignoring the multiple points of contact at which ‘racism’ can be made visible or made to disappear. The concern here it that such a process can work to reinscribe the very ‘racisms’ we aim to disrupt. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Elaborating Britishnessmentioning

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‘It's not racist. It's common sense’. A critical analysis of political discourse around asylum and immigration in the UK

Capdevila

Callaghan

2007

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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“…The invader or enemy metaphor has previously been discussed in relation to right-wing migration discourse in a range of contemporary contexts (Baider and Kopytowska, 2017;Böke, 1997;Burke, 2002;Catalano and Fielder, 2018;Chichon, 2020;Parker, 2015;Petersson and Kainz, 2017;Santa Ana, 1999;Van der Valk, 2003). This metaphor does not dehumanise the migrants and explicitly presents them as a threat.…”

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Metaphors of migration over time

Taylor

2021

Discourse & Society

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This paper aims to cast light on contemporary migration rhetoric by integrating historical discourse analysis. I focus on continuity and change in conventionalised metaphorical framings of emigration and immigration in the UK-based Times newspaper from 1800 to 2018. The findings show that some metaphors persist throughout the 200-year time period (liquid, object), some are more recent in conventionalised form (animals, invader, weight) while others dropped out of conventionalised use before returning (commodity, guest). Furthermore, we see that the spread of metaphor use goes beyond correlation with migrant naming choices with both emigrants and immigrants occupying similar metaphorical frames historically. However, the analysis also shows that continuity in metaphor use cannot be assumed to correspond to stasis in framing and evaluation as the liquid metaphor is shown to have been more favourable in the past. A dominant frame throughout the period is migrants as an economic resource and the evaluation is determined by the speaker’s perception of control of this resource.

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“…For the past three decades the number of international students in Australia's higher education sector has grown exponentially from approximately 13,700 in 1983 to nearly 250,000 enrolments in 2014 (Australian Education International, 2014; Burke, 2002). There has also been a corresponding growth in discourses on problems in relation to international students studying in Australian universities, both in the popular media and amongst academic researchers.…”

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“…Many of these discourses have been arguably negative, ranging from talk of international students as "backdoor migrants" and "invaders" through to references to them as "cash cows" or "commodities". Such discourses have, in turn, been resisted by some, notably international students themselves (Burke, 2002(Burke, , 2012Robertson, 2011). One discourse, in particular, has dominated such debates, namely, the so-called "English problem."…”

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Complaints and troubles talk about the English language skills of international students in Australian universities

Haugh

2016

Higher Education Research & Development

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International students have continued to be the focus of simplistic stereotyping in media discourse where they are frequently identified as one of the forces behind declining academic standards in Australian universities. Their English language skills, in particular, have continued to be the focus of debate both in the mainstream media and in higher education research and policy. It is argued in this paper, however, that such debates do not sufficiently acknowledge the moral and affective complexity of the so-called "English problem" amongst international students in Australian universities. Drawing from an analysis of small group interviews with international students, domestic students and university staff, the beliefs and experiences of various parties about the English language skills of international students are examined. A key finding from this analysis is that the English language skills of international students, and their concomitant interactions with others, can be the object of both complaints and troubles talk. These complaints or troubles can be either ratified or resisted by those participants. The difficulties international students may experience in using English thus have complex moral and affective consequences. The way in which the so-called English problem in Australian universities is generally couched as one of objective, measurable deficiency on the part of international students arguably neglects the moral and affective complexity of the difficulties facing international students. This neglect leads, in turn, to an impoverished understanding of the English language capabilities of international students.

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Invitation or Invasion? The 'family home' metaphor in the Australian media's construction of immigration

Cited by 11 publications

References 3 publications

‘It's not racist. It's common sense’. A critical analysis of political discourse around asylum and immigration in the UK

‘It's not racist. It's common sense’. A critical analysis of political discourse around asylum and immigration in the UK

Metaphors of migration over time

Complaints and troubles talk about the English language skills of international students in Australian universities

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