“Petaling Street almost Malaysian”- A Discourse Analysis of News on Illegal Immigrants

Idrus, Mohd Muzhafar; Ismail, Izaham Shah

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.07.105

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“…Migrants are typically shunned, blamed for high crime rates and sexual promiscuity, and regarded as fit only to perform “dangerous, dirty and difficult” jobs (Aw, 2016). Migrants are portrayed in media outlets as a threat to local citizens’ security, and their concerns silenced (Idrus & Ismail, 2013; Kaur, 2013). Such “structures of living together” reduce the ability of women migrant workers to exercise agency in achieving valued capabilities, including for SRH.…”

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At the limits of “capability”: The sexual and reproductive health of women migrant workers in Malaysia

Freeman

Miles

Ying

et al. 2021

Sociology Health & Illness

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Despite the centrality of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), women migrant workers in Malaysia face an environment inimical to their SRH needs. Drawing on qualitative case study material, we present the first empirical application of the capability approach (CA) to explore the reproductive health needs of women migrant workers in a developing country, offering an original analysis of the capability for SRH of these women. Specifically, we explore the resources available to them; their opportunities and freedoms ("capabilities"); and factors that mediate transformation of resources into capability sets ("conversion factors"). While SRH information and health care are notionally available, women migrant workers face multiple challenges in converting resources into functionings, constraining the achievement of capability for SRH. Challenges include language barriers, personal beliefs, power relations between workers and employers and the consequences of current migration policy. We consider the scale of the challenges facing these women in securing SRH rights, the difficulties of operationalising the CA within such a setting, and the implications of our findings for the adequacy of the CA in supporting marginalised populations.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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“…Migrants are portrayed in media outlets as a threat to local citizens' security, and their concerns silenced (Idrus & Ismail, 2013;Kaur, 2013). Such "structures of living together" reduce the ability of women migrant workers to exercise agency in achieving valued capabilities, including for SRH.…”

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At the limits of “capability”: The sexual and reproductive health of women migrant workers in Malaysia

Freeman

Miles

Ying

et al. 2021

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…Abundant work has recently been devoted to analyzing news discourse (Bednarek, 2016;Boer and Van Tubergen, 2019;Ge and Wang, 2018;Idrus and Ismail, 2013;Montgomery and Shen, 2017;Schubert, 2015;Van Krieken and Sanders, 2016). Among them, investigating evaluative language in news is an emerging and promising area (Ghavamnia and Dastjerdi, 2013;Pounds, 2012).…”

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From Confrontation to Collaboration: Attitudinal Changes of Trish Regan on US-China Trade War in Commentaries and Debate

Weichao¹,

Zhang²

2020

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In her cross-border debate with Chinese anchor Liu Xin, Trish Regan, an American anchor, behaved differently than what she had done in her previous commentaries. This paper explores the attitudinal differences evinced by Trish Regan on different occasions from a linguistic perspective. Based on the Appraisal System, especially the Attitude subsystem (Martin and White, 2005), this paper examines the attitudinal resources utilized by Trish Regan in her two news commentaries and her online debate with her counterpart Liu Xin—a set of texts which provides a longitudinal account of how Trish has changed her attitude. By annotating the attitude resources used by Trish, positive and negative evaluations are expected to be clarified, with detailed analyses of subsystems in the Attitude System to be given. The results suggest that Trish’s attitude towards China has changed a lot in her commentaries and the debate with Liu Xin—from negative to partly positive. It also appears that Trish maintained a positive attitude towards the United States while she changed her positive attitude towards the trade war into a negative one in her debate with Liu Xin.

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“…As a country with high total number of foreign nationals, local researchers started to study on press coverage on illegal immigrants, the voices of people in power in the media about the immigrants and asylum seekers in Malaysia and the media reports on the influx of foreign workers in Malaysia [7,8,9]. Most of the researchers agreed that the media tend to report foreign nationals as criminals in the crime news.…”

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Foreign Nationals as Offenders and Victims in Malaysian Crime News

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Abstract. Foreign nationals in Malaysia come from all corners of the world. They are here as migrant labour, highly skilled and professional migrants (expatriates), illegal migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers (Burmese asylum seekers with UNHCR card), forced migrants (human trafficking victims), students, and tourists. The influx of foreign nationals residing in Malaysia coincides with greater number of crime news featuring foreign nationals. This study explores the social construction of foreign nationals as the 'other' in the local crime news published by Malaysian newspapers. 94 news headlines and lead sentences of local crime news involving foreign nationals were identified and analysed for this study. Findings suggest that Malaysian newspapers magnify foreign nationals' migration status in each crime news.

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“Petaling Street almost Malaysian”- A Discourse Analysis of News on Illegal Immigrants

Cited by 4 publications

References 2 publications

At the limits of “capability”: The sexual and reproductive health of women migrant workers in Malaysia

At the limits of “capability”: The sexual and reproductive health of women migrant workers in Malaysia

From Confrontation to Collaboration: Attitudinal Changes of Trish Regan on US-China Trade War in Commentaries and Debate

Foreign Nationals as Offenders and Victims in Malaysian Crime News

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