Policy and media discourses on refugees in Lithuania: shaping the boundaries between host society and refugees

Blažytė, Giedrė; Frėjutė-Rakauskienė, Monika; Pilinkaitė-Sotirovič, Vilana

doi:10.7220/2351-6561.29.1

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“…At the time of writing this, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees report of violent cross-border asylum seeker pushbacks on the Latvian, Lithuanian, and Polish border with Belarus" (UNHCR, 2021). This is followed by growing racist, xenophobic, and islamophobic attitudes in the broader society of Lithuania (Blažytė et al 2020;Blažytė, 2021). Does the present political discourse affect students' non-cognitive skills, attitudes, and values?…”

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Associations Between Global Competence and Right-Leaning Population: Evidence From PISA 2018 and European Social Survey

Vaitekaitis

Stumbrienė²

2022

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This study explores the relationship between 15-year-olds results in the PISA 2018 assessment of global competence and citizens’ political views. In particular, we look at the correlations of 18 EU nation-states citizens’ political preferences (right-leaning) and students’ non-cognitive skills, attitudes, and values. Data from the OECDs’ PISA global competence and European Social Survey for the year 2018 were used. After the analysis, it can be presumed that the higher share of the right-leaning population in the country is associated with lower students’ global competencies.

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Associations Between Global Competence and Right-Leaning Population: Evidence From PISA 2018 and European Social Survey

Vaitekaitis

Stumbrienė²

2022

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“…"The Lithuanian media, similarly to the media of other countries, have a negative image of refugees, and often the difference is that the threats related to refugees in the Lithuanian media are constructed exclusively by Western European societies and do not reflect the real situation in Lithuania." [9] The discourses that are used to talk about refugees are often politicized and stigmatize people with refugee status [10]. People in Lithuania have little knowledge about the real people who have been granted refugee status in Lithuania.…”

Section: Reflexivity About the Discourses Shaping The Narratives Of Ngo Workers About Refugees And Their Workmentioning

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The importance of narrative learning and reflexivity at work with foreigners granted asylum and the context of a non-governmental organization

Grudulaitė

Žemaitaitytė

2022

SHS Web Conf.

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This paper discusses the importance of narrative learning and reflexivity at work with foreigners granted asylum. The discussed data is from 1 year duration fieldwork at NGO working with refugees in Lithuania. In this paper the examples from 4 narrative portraits of NGO workers are presented. It is argued that narrative learning is an interactive and co-constructed process and there is the need of awareness about the narratives and narrative learning, and how storytelling could be used for effective social work practice. The paper discusses the doctoral research data and explores the links between narrative learning and reflexivity. It is argued that reflecting about their practice critically, the workers can create new narrative identities and better understand and analyse their own identities, values, choices, practices and wider local and international contexts. Therefore, it is important to increase reflexivity and awareness of workers about various contextual factors and discourses, which might be influencing their narratives about their work and refugees, and further research on narrative learning and narratives of NGO workers.

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“…Along the way, they fear border guards, authorities in neighboring countries, the risks of sea-travel, militant attacks (bandits along their paths), smugglers, and separation from family. Once they arrive to the destination countries, the fear comes from their inability to communicate due to language deficiencies, from media and the discourse of the political right, as well as from migration policies (Blažytė et al, 2020;Parker, 2020). All of this is associated with emotions of shame, embarrassment, or humiliation.…”

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Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Emotions in Migration Studies

Mahmud¹

2021

RIEM

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This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical studies on emotions in migration studies to determine the state of the art as well as to identify gaps. In addition to the three main approaches to understanding forced migrants’ emotional lives (extraordinary, everyday encounters, and therapeutic), this paper identifies different types of empirical research informed by these theoretical perspectives. They focus on; the impact of the context of migration, emotions during a specific stage of the journey, and the emotions, values, and traditions that forced migrants bring with them to the destination country. This literature review led to determining the most relevant tendencies and considerations. Due to the dominance of the therapeutic and extraordinary approaches, there is a need to (1) explore further the role of emotions in forced migration; (2) look at how forced migrants construct their emotions without losing the context (where, why and when); (3) investigate other functions of emotions or to ask how forced migrants make sense of their experience of violence, torture…etc.; (4) take into consideration the whole journey from beginning to end; (5) develop a theory based on empirical data which explains the interaction between emotions and belonging.

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Policy and media discourses on refugees in Lithuania: shaping the boundaries between host society and refugees

Cited by 6 publications

References 3 publications

Associations Between Global Competence and Right-Leaning Population: Evidence From PISA 2018 and European Social Survey

Associations Between Global Competence and Right-Leaning Population: Evidence From PISA 2018 and European Social Survey

The importance of narrative learning and reflexivity at work with foreigners granted asylum and the context of a non-governmental organization

Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Emotions in Migration Studies

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