Subtle discriminatory political discourse on immigration

Rubio-Carbonero, Gema

doi:10.1075/jlp.19069.rub

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“…This is a discourse schema “that globally organizes discourse across sentence boundaries” (Van Dijk, 1985). Superstructures are what people may remember after having been in contact with this particular discourse (Rubio‐Carbonero, 2020).…”

Section: Problematizations and Games Of Truth In Vox's Discoursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Keep them out to save our inside:” discourses on immigration by the Spanish far right

Gemignani

Carrasco

2023

Social & Personality Psych

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Vox is a far-right, Spanish political party that has steadily grown to become the third main party in the national congress. Immigration is a major presence in Vox's political agenda. Through Critical Discourse Analysis, we analyze the party's public speeches and Twitter communications on immigration in the last 3 years, from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 to the Ukraine-Russia war in 2022. These contexts have provided a fertile ground for Vox's concerns with the protection of national borders, the criminalization of African and irregular immigrants, and the Spanish Government's ineffectiveness to protect the Spaniards' homes. Vox's main discursive strategies entail constructions of migrants and migration based on dichotomous binaries, culture clash, exclusionary discourses of domopolitics, and fears of imminent social and cultural changes. These constructions are based on the unproblematized belief on essential and unchangeable values that forge the identity of the homeland, which is implicitly threatened by immigrants. Against the migratory invasion, Vox constitutes itself as the ethical protector of the Spanish society and nation, "out of care for the insiders and not out of hatred for outsiders."

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Section: Problematizations and Games Of Truth In Vox's Discoursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…19). First, the homogenizing (Rubio‐Carbonero, 2020) from an “immigrant” to “the savages” is enacted. Then, irregular immigrants are branded as savages, a colonial word that assumes the inferiority of the indigenous people and the need to control them.…”

Section: Problematizations and Games Of Truth In Vox's Discoursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Keep them out to save our inside:” discourses on immigration by the Spanish far right

Gemignani

Carrasco

2023

Social & Personality Psych

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“…ADR can be defined as a digital discursive form of discrimination that is presented as subtler, polished, and without obvious racist language on SMPs (Rubio-Carbonero, 2020). ADR refers to a narrative that allows racist discourses to be posted online, tolerated, and sometimes confused with an open debate about race (Siapera, 2019).…”

Section: Ambient Digital Racismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although these hashtags may not typically use explicit language that could be perceived as racist, it uses colloquial and seemingly neutral language part of a rhetoric that promotes a racist discourse. This subtle, vulnerable to interpretation, and difficult to identify type of discrimination becomes part of what is considered ADR (Rubio-Carbonero, 2020).…”

Section: Counter-movements and Blmmentioning

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It’s Not How You Say It, It’s What You Say: Ambient Digital Racism and Racial Narratives on Twitter

Agudelo

Olbrych

2022

Social Media + Society

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Social media has been used to disseminate hate speech and racism. Racist opinions can be disguised through a language that may appear to be harmless; however, it can be part of a racist rhetoric toward communities of color. This type of racist communication is called Ambient Digital Racism (ADR). Through a thematic analysis, this project sought to identify and analyze social media racist discourses on Twitter in the context of George Floyd’s death. This research examined original tweets posted during the time of the protests using three known counter Black Lives Matter (BLM) hashtags, namely, #WhiteLivesMatter, #BlueLivesMatter, and #AllLivesMatter. After the analysis, two themes emerged, namely, the discourse of oppressor’s reverse racism and the social criminalization of BLM. These themes described the narratives used by these groups to develop a racist digital discourse that goes unnoticed by social media regulations and policies and that leaves an open space to negotiate what constitutes acceptable race talk and what constitutes a racist discourse. It was found that both themes were grounded on White victimization, color-blind racism, and the dehumanization of BLM as a social and racial justice movement.

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When in parliamentary debate there is no debate

Rubio-Carbonero

Franco‐Guillén²

2021

JLP

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On the 1st October 2017 an independence referendum was organised in Catalonia. The aim of this paper is to analyse the nature of the political debate going on in the Catalan Parliament during the whole process by focusing on the kind of argumentation strategies that were used by each of the leanings to legitimise their political decisions. We do that relying on a methodological distinction that differentiates between sound argumentation and fallacious argumentation. By using a Critical Discourse Analysis approach, this study offers a wide picture of the kind of argumentation used by the main political actors involved in the process of decision making in Catalonia. The results show that there is more emphasis in antagonising with the others, than engaging in sound argument exchange that could facilitate minimal points of consensus. Such results may help explain why the Catalan conflict is still unsolved at the political level.

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Subtle discriminatory political discourse on immigration

Cited by 4 publications

References 25 publications

“Keep them out to save our inside:” discourses on immigration by the Spanish far right

“Keep them out to save our inside:” discourses on immigration by the Spanish far right

It’s Not How You Say It, It’s What You Say: Ambient Digital Racism and Racial Narratives on Twitter

When in parliamentary debate there is no debate

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