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

Abstract

On October 17, 2009, seventy-six

Méconnaissance

“…Ces recherches soulignent l'importance de l'exclusion sociale et politique constatée, par exemple, dans l'ethnographie du public d'un contexte urbain (Clark 2014), dans l'analyse du contenu de la couverture journalistique de la pauvreté dans les grandes villes canadiennes (Richter et al 2011), dans les groupes de discussion sur les réactions émotionnelles aux reportages sur l'itinérance dans les grandes villes (Schneider 2014), et dans les analyses contextuelles des questions relatives aux réfugiés (Bradimore et Bauder 2011). L'argument sur la méconnaissance de premier niveau des médias vient s'ajouter aux récentes recherches sur l'utilisation des médias urbains par les groupes ethniques canadiens dont les sujets sont également demeurés à l'écart du public implicite de la presse grand public (Lindgren 2014), ainsi qu'à une analyse contextuelle de la pauvreté infantile dans la presse nationale au Canada et au Royaume-Uni (Redden 2014).…”

Queue-jumpers, terrorists, breeders: representations of Tamil migrants in Canadian popular media

“…4 To more closely examine how this discursive balance has shifted, I look at some of the online reactions to the MV Sun Sea's arrival between July 2010 and July 2011, in the form of editorials and opinion columns, blogs, reader comments sections and discussion boards, which I refer to collectively here as popular media. While conventional media discourse analyses tend to focus on those texts that are representative of 'objective journalism' (Bradimore and Bauder 2011), popular media sites are critical locations for observing public engagement and interaction. These kinds of texts may not represent the full breadth of public opinion and in fact tend to represent its extremes.…”

“…The first is the depiction of the Sun Sea passengers as 'queue-jumpers'. This accusation, levied against the MV Ocean Lady passengers in 2009 as well as against the Fujian refugees who arrived in BC a decade earlier, is not new, but its recent proliferation reflects a shift in public opinion that corresponds to changes in federal policy (Bradimore and Bauder 2011). As 'queue-jumpers', the Tamil migrants are seen as backdoor entrants who are not fleeing from any real persecution.…”

“…Bradimore and Bauder's (2011) recent study of the media reception of the MV Ocean Lady provides necessary context for the present study, exploring how these migrants were immediately presumed to be terrorists and 'illegal' migrants in the news. Focusing on mainstream journalistic media coverage, Bradimore and Bauder connect this discourse to the reception of other migrants in Canada, particularly to the Fujian 'boat people' who arrived off Vancouver a decade earlier (Greenberg 2000, Hier and Greenberg 2002, Mahtani and Mountz, 2002, Mountz 2010.…”

A imigração como risco para a saúde: uma análise das representações do imigrante africano na cobertura da Folha de S. Paulo sobre o ébola

“…Embora a teoria do risco esteja tradicionalmente centrada em questões de tecnologia e meio ambiente (Beck, 2010;Giddens, 2001), outros estudos têm aplicado a teoria do risco na análise da representação dos média sobre as questões da imigração e do corpo imigrante (Bradimore & Bauder, 2011). Com base na semiologia dos discursos sociais, mostraremos como se deram as diferentes estratégias discursivas e os efeitos de sentido produzidos na separação entre "nós" (saudáveis/ameaçados) e "eles" (doentes/ameaçadores) e suas conexões com um processo de estereotipização do Outro.…”