The sexually frustrated, the dumb and the libtard traitors: A typology of insults used in the positioning of multiple others in Irish online discourse relating to refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants and migrants

Devlin, Anne Marie; Grant, Ciara

doi:10.1177/0267323117741081

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“…This construction is also manifest in other studies on discourses about migrants (see e.g. Masocha, 2015;Devlin and Grant 2017;Moore et al, 2018). It forms a part of the discourse that constructs asylum seekers as a threat.…”

Section: Moral Evaluationsupporting

confidence: 65%

(De-)legitimation of migration

Sundström¹,

Obenius²

2020

Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Northern Europe

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De-)legitimation of migration: a critical study of social media discourses 'She is old and sick and will not live for many more years, you have to be humane by letting her stay and not be so damn bureaucratic (two angry smileys)'. 1 The quote comes from a comment adding to a discussion on Facebook about the case of Sahar, a 106-year-old woman whom the Swedish Migration Agency denied a permit to remain in Sweden. 2 The Agency argued that despite Sahar's old age and poor health, there was no reason for her not to return to the province of Kunduz in Afghanistan, which used to be her home. According to the Agency, this province was safe for Sahar to return to. That she was blind, partly paralysed, unable to speak, and had no one who could look after her in Afghanistan did not make her a 'particularly vulnerable person' 3 in need of refugee protection on humanitarian grounds, in the eyes of the Agency. The decision of the Agency was later overturned by the Migration Court, who argued it would be objectionable from precisely a humanitarian perspective to deport Sahar and that the deportation would amount to an inhumane and degradable treatment in violation of Article 3 (the right to life) of the European Convention on Human Rights. Instead, the court granted Sahar a temporary permit to remain in Sweden for 13 months. As this chapter reveals, the case of Sahar and the court's decision came to be much debated by the public in Sweden, especially on social media. The chapter provides a critical analysis of the debate about this particular asylum case, using Van Leeuwen's analytical tool for analysing discursive (de-)legitimation, which is inspired by Habermas' understanding of public discourse and legitimacy. The aim of the analysis is to explore how social media users (de-)legitimised the decision of the court while they were discussing it on the Swedish evening paper Expressen's Facebook page. The collection of data followed recommendations on collecting data online by Sveningsson et al. (2003). Firstly, a broad search was conducted, followed by a progressive limitation of the material. The keywords used when searching on Facebook were the Swedish word for 'Migration Court' (Migrationsdomstol) and 'Migration Court of Appeal' (Migrationsöverdomstolen).

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Section: Moral Evaluationsupporting

confidence: 65%

(De-)legitimation of migration

Sundström¹,

Obenius²

2020

Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Northern Europe

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“…Trolls and manipulators may attack specific articles or topics, and they can also divert content-driven hate to actors mentioned in the article or the journalists themselves. A typical example of this is the behavior of right-wing commenters who target articles on refugees (Devlin & Grant, 2017;Toepfl & Piwoni, 2017), and depending on the article's tone, also attack the journalists as being responsible for the content and its tone. In Germany, this basic principle was generalized in the form of the Lügenpresse (press of liars) accusation, especially advanced by the right-wing, anti-Islam and anti-refugee movement, PEGIDA (see also Quandt et al, in press).…”

Section: Objects and Targetsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dark Participation

Quandt

2018

MaC

279

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Citizen participation in the news-making process has been a hopeful promise since the 1990s. Observers hoped for a rejuvenation of journalism and democracy alike. However, many of the enthusiastic theoretical concepts on user engagement did not endure close empirical examination. Some of the major fallacies of these early works (to whom the author contributed himself) will be outlined in this article. As a bleak flip side to these utopian ideas, the concept of “dark participation” is introduced here. As research has revealed, this type of user engagement seems to be growing parallel to the recent wave of populism in Western democracies. In a systematization, some essential aspects of dark participation will be differentiated. Finally, the benefits of (also) looking at the wicked side of things will be discussed.

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“…These often take a (somatic) form of the "threatening other" (Ahmed, 2004) and creating fear, for example, by turning violence against women into an "immigrant problem" (Miles & Brown, 2003: 52) or by stressing crime as an inevitable result of immigration (Wodak, 2015). Reciprocally, the solidarity expressed by citizens and political actors during the refugee crisis has, in hindsight, been depicted as naive, irresponsible, and a betrayal to the home nation (Devlin & Grant, 2017). That is, "do-gooders" put the interests of the "other" before their own native population.…”

Section: Racism Populist Strategy and The News Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

A populist turn?: News editorials and the recent discursive shift on immigration in Sweden

Ekman

Krzyżanowski

2021

Nordicom Review

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This article undertakes a critical discourse analysis of Swedish quality newspaper editorials and their evolving framing of immigration since the 2015 peak of the recent European “refugee crisis”. Positioned within the ongoing discursive shifts in the Swedish public sphere and the growth of discursive uncivility in its mainstream areas, the analysis highlights how xenophobic and racist discourses once propagated by the far and radical right gradually penetrate into the studied broadsheet newspapers. We argue that the examined editorials carry the tendency to normalise once radical perceptions of immigration. This takes place by incorporating various discursive strategies embedded in wider argumentative frames – or topoi – of demographic consequences, Islam and Islamisation, threat, and integration. All of these enable constructing claims against immigration now apparently prevalent in the examined strands of the Swedish “quality” press.

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The sexually frustrated, the dumb and the libtard traitors: A typology of insults used in the positioning of multiple others in Irish online discourse relating to refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants and migrants

Cited by 12 publications

References 24 publications

(De-)legitimation of migration

(De-)legitimation of migration

Dark Participation

A populist turn?: News editorials and the recent discursive shift on immigration in Sweden

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