Asylum Seekers in Australian News Media : Mediated (in)humanity / / Ashleigh Haw

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910639881003321
• Autore: Haw Ashleigh
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 9783031185687; 9783031185670
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 pages)
• Disciplina: 325.210994
• Soggetti: Political refugees - Australia; Political refugees - Social conditions; Australia Emigration and immigration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- References -- 2: Asylum Seekers in the Australian News Media: What Do We Know So Far? -- Introduction -- Seeking Asylum in Australia: The Political Landscape -- News Media and Societal Discourses -- Audience Perspectives and the Questions that Remain -- References -- 3: Concepts, Methods, and Ethical Considerations -- Introduction -- Approach, Aims, and Research Questions -- Data Collection -- Sampling and Participants -- Interviews -- Theoretical Framework and Analytical Lens -- Settler Colonialism, Social Exclusivism, and Cosmopolitan Acceptance -- Understanding Discourse -- Discursive Approaches to News Values -- Researching News Audiences -- Analysis -- Ethical Considerations -- References -- 4: 'Open the Floodgates': Metaphor as a Tool for Legitimising Australia's 'Invasion' Panic -- Introduction -- Australia's Collective Fear of the Asylum Seeker 'Other' -- Mediated Sensationalism and Moral Panics -- Water and Containment Metaphors -- Australian News Audience Perspectives -- 'Hordes of People Showing Up': Audience Perspectives that Reflect Moral Panic Discourses -- 'I Can't Blame People for Being Confused': Resistance to Moral Panic Discourses -- ; Some 'Flood' for Thought? -- References -- 5: 'Nation Prepares for War': The Discursive Securitisation of Asylum Seekers -- Introduction -- The Discursive Securitisation of People Seeking Asylum in Australia -- Discourses of 'Border Control' and the Language of War -- State Sovereignty and the Exclusionary Rhetoric of Ethnonationalism -- Asylum Seekers as 'Non-Human' -- Australian News Audience Perspectives -- 'Protect Your Own First': Reproducing Securitisation Themes -- 'Just a Sales Pitch': Responses to Securitisation Discourses in the Australian Media -- What Do Securitisation Discourses Achieve? -- References.; 6: 'Fight Against Illegals': Constructing Asylum Seekers Through Frames of Criminality and Illegitimacy -- Introduction -- Framing Asylum Seekers Along Discourses of Illegitimacy and Deviance -- Asylum Seekers as 'Illegal' -- 'Genuine' Refugees Versus 'Queue Jumpers' -- Australian News Audience Perspectives -- 'You Have to Wait in the Queue': Reproducing 'Proper Channels' and Illegitimacy Discourses -- 'Political Pawns': Resisting Illegality Narratives and 'Queue Jumper' Framings About Asylum Seekers -- Criminalisation Narratives as an Agenda-Setting Exercise -- References -- 7: 'Taxpayers Foot the Bill': Scapegoating Asylum Seekers Through 'Economic Migrants' and 'Burden' Narratives -- Introduction -- The Positioning of Asylum Seekers as Economic Scapegoats -- Creating a Scapegoat -- The 'Burden' of People Seeking Asylum in Australia -- 'Economic Migrants' -- Australian News Audience Perspectives -- 'Taking Other People's Jobs': Constructing Asylum Seekers as 'Burdens' and 'Economic Migrants' -- 'There's No Evidence This Even Happens': Critiques of Economic Scapegoating Discourses -- The Simultaneous Triumph and Failure of Economic Scapegoating Narratives -- References -- 8: Conclusion -- References -- Index.