04636nam 2200445 450 991063988100332120230501175136.09783031185687(electronic bk.)9783031185670(MiAaPQ)EBC7166005(Au-PeEL)EBL7166005(CKB)25913693700041(EXLCZ)992591369370004120230501d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAsylum Seekers in Australian News Media Mediated (in)humanity /Ashleigh HawCham, Switzerland :Palgrave Macmillan,[2022]©20221 online resource (235 pages)Print version: Haw, Ashleigh Asylum Seekers in Australian News Media Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031185670 Includes bibliographical references.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.Political refugeesAustraliaPolitical refugeesSocial conditionsAustraliaEmigration and immigrationPolitical refugeesPolitical refugeesSocial conditions.325.210994Haw Ashleigh1274658MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910639881003321Asylum Seekers in Australian News Media3003369UNINA