scholarly journals Watchdogs, Advocates and Adversaries: Journalists’ Relational Role Conceptions in Asylum Reporting

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Ojala ◽  
Reeta Pöyhtäri
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Professional Roles ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Reference Groups ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Role Conceptions ◽  
Social Interactionist ◽  
Interactionist Approach

Journalistic role conceptions are usually understood as internalised professional conventions about the tasks reporters pursue in society. This study insists that more attention be put on the relational and context-dependent nature of journalistic role conceptions. Adopting a social-interactionist approach to journalistic roles, the study examines how Finnish journalists conceived of their professional roles when covering asylum issues during the so-called “refugee crisis” of 2015–2016. Based on an analysis of open-ended, semi-structured interviews with 24 journalists, we highlight how considerations of the political context and interactions with three key reference groups—officials, asylum seekers and anti-immigrant publics—shaped the journalists’ conceptions of their tasks and duties. The article contributes to the study of journalistic role conceptions by illustrating how the conceptualisation of journalistic roles in relation to reference groups takes place in practice. It also sheds light on the tensions involved in journalistic balancing and negotiation between various available role conceptions, especially in the shifting societal and political contexts of a Europe marked by multiculturalism and the simultaneous rise of anti-immigrant movements.

scholarly journals Interrogating the efficiency paradigm : a study of language analysis as evidence in refugee status determination

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Colleen Pease
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
News Media ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Refugee Status ◽  
Language Analysis ◽  
The Subject

In 1993, Sweden commenced the unprecedented practice of using Language Analysis (LA) as evidence in refugee status determination. Since that time, Western governments trying to cope with the perceived refugee crisis have similarly adopted the tool to corroborate and undermine the nationality claims of asylum seekers crossing borders without identity documents. During this same period, language professionals, lawyers, various news media, and others across the globe have proceeded to fuel international controversy on the subject, largely challenging the linguistic integrity of the tool, while investing less energy addressing the political context of use, as well as the implications for violations of refugee rights. In 2007, Canada reflected prioritized concerns for efficiency when it made public a pilot project to address the value of this language tool in aiding status decision-making. This paper interrogates the Canadian efficiency paradigm through the Australian lens of LA in practice. In exposing the ethical and legal sites of likely disengagement should Canada proceed with implementation, this paper cautions against LA becoming the most recent assault on a Canadian protection regime already under siege.

scholarly journals Interrogating the efficiency paradigm : a study of language analysis as evidence in refugee status determination

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Colleen Pease
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
News Media ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Refugee Status ◽  
Language Analysis ◽  
The Subject

In 1993, Sweden commenced the unprecedented practice of using Language Analysis (LA) as evidence in refugee status determination. Since that time, Western governments trying to cope with the perceived refugee crisis have similarly adopted the tool to corroborate and undermine the nationality claims of asylum seekers crossing borders without identity documents. During this same period, language professionals, lawyers, various news media, and others across the globe have proceeded to fuel international controversy on the subject, largely challenging the linguistic integrity of the tool, while investing less energy addressing the political context of use, as well as the implications for violations of refugee rights. In 2007, Canada reflected prioritized concerns for efficiency when it made public a pilot project to address the value of this language tool in aiding status decision-making. This paper interrogates the Canadian efficiency paradigm through the Australian lens of LA in practice. In exposing the ethical and legal sites of likely disengagement should Canada proceed with implementation, this paper cautions against LA becoming the most recent assault on a Canadian protection regime already under siege.

scholarly journals From repression to oppression: news journalism in Turkey 2013–2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1443-1460
Author(s):  
Stefanie Pukallus ◽  
Lisa Bradley ◽  
Sarah Clarke ◽  
Jackie Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Coup D'etat ◽  
Gray Literature ◽  
Turkish State ◽  
Constitutional Changes

The political context for practicing free and independent journalism has always been challenging in Turkey and ever more so after the failed coup d’état of 2016. This article examines and analyzes the changes brought about by this failed coup d’état in terms of their civil, legal, and political significance for news journalism and news journalists. More specifically and based on two sets of semi-structured interviews with Turkish editors and senior journalists supported by an analysis of gray literature, we argue that between 2013 and 2018 Turkey has moved from a pre-coup repression of news journalism (2013–2016) to a post-coup oppression of news journalism (2016–2018). The former was characterized by unsystematic attacks on news journalism conducted with impunity leading to a climate of fear that made self-censorship inescapable. In contrast, the latter relied on constitutional changes and the use of law to systematically compromise the civil institution of news journalism and to cast news journalists as political enemies of the Turkish state resulting in what can be likened to a loss of their citizenship. We further argue that the development from the repression to oppression of news journalism has been ‘authorized’ and ‘legalized’ by the constitutional changes that came into force on 9 July 2018.

scholarly journals For Dignity, Against Racism: The Struggles of Asylum Seekers in Italy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Pasqualetto ◽  
Fabio Perocco
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

In Italy, over the last years in the world of social struggles asylum seekers have been in the spotlight several times, having led several episodes of mobilisations and protests. They emerged as political subjects, with their own claims and situations; parallel to the issue of reception, they expressed themselves in the public space as asylum seekers, with campaigns, pickets, and marches, with which the respect for their rights and dignity is advocated. This study analyses the causes, forms and repercussions of the struggles of asylum seekers in the last decade. After the analysis of the experience of immigrants’ struggles over the last three decades, the article examines the social roots and the features of the struggles of asylum seekers between 2011 to 2019, and considers their meaning in the political context.

scholarly journals A implantação da Terapia Comunitária Integrativa em um município do Rio de Janeiro

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (esp. 1) ◽  
pp. 376-392
Author(s):  
Erika Macedo ◽  
Vera Lucia Luiza ◽  
Vera Cecília Frossard
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
The Political ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Implantation Process ◽  
Municipal Health

The objective is to describe and analyze the implantation process of integrative community therapy (ICT) in Volta Redonda, municipality of Rio de Janeiro. Semi-structured interviews and observation of ICT groups were carried out, during the period of September to November, in addition the occurrence of documentary analysis. In municipal documents, ICT began to be referenced since 2009 until the present moment (2018 to 2021), starting to be foreseen in the Project Center for Integrative Practices of the Municipal Health Department (Secretaria Municipal de Saúde). The implementation analysis revealed the importance of the political context, sometimes as a facilitator agent of implementation, and sometimes as a barrier to maintaining its offer. Despite the change in the political context becoming a factor that decreased the number of groups of ICT, there was recognition of its potential in the construction of social support networks, as well as in the attention to the demands of mental health, such as, for example, the reduction of medicalization.

scholarly journals A corpus-driven analysis of representations of Syrian asylum seekers in the Turkish press 2011–2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
İbrahim Efe
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Daily Newspapers

This article, using methods from corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis, reports the findings of a research project that aimed to explore the representations of Syrian asylum seekers in the Turkish press from March 2011, when the first Syrians arrived in Turkey, to December 2015, when the project ended. Using a corpus of 2321 texts collected from five Turkish daily newspapers, concordances of the words Syrian, refugee and asylum seeker were examined and grouped along patterns through which discourses on and around Syrian asylum seekers were uncovered. We found differing discourses that framed asylum seekers as ‘our brothers’, ‘victims’, ‘needy people’ and/or ‘threat’, ‘criminals’ and so on. Newspapers maintained one or a combination of these discourses to construct their own reality about the refugee crisis in Turkey. The analysis also reveals that Turkish newspapers use pertinent terms interchangeably, leading to an ambiguity which reflects the political as well as daily usage of the terms.

The Recast Reception Conditions Directive and the Rights of Asylum Seekers with Disabilities: Opportunities, Challenges and the Quest for Reform

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-307
Author(s):  
Charles O’Sullivan ◽  
Delia Ferri
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Political ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Recent Proposal ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
Developed World ◽  
The Eu

Abstract In recent years, the European Union (EU) has, like much of the developed world, experienced a sustained period of inward migration from refugee-producing States in Africa and the Middle-East. This ‘refugee crisis’ has placed a strain not only on the political will of the EU institutions and Member States to find a satisfactory resolution to deal with the flow of migrants, but also on their ability to put in place fair processes for any resulting claims for asylum and to adequately support the needs of asylum seekers while those claims are being processed. This article discusses the latter issue from a discreet angle, focusing on how the EU has addressed the needs of asylum seekers with disabilities. As a party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which enjoys sub-constitutional status within the EU legal order, the EU is obligated to interpret all legislation in light of the Convention. Thus, this article seeks to assess the degree to which Directive 2013/33/EU on the material reception conditions for asylum seekers can protect and promote the rights of asylum seekers with disabilities and fulfill the ‘human rights model of disability’ embedded within the CRPD. It also assesses the most recent proposal to replace the Directive, and examines whether the potential shortcomings within it have been addressed thus far. Ultimately, it finds that the ambiguities and lack of procedural certainty within the current Directive provide too much room to derogate from the standards arguably mandated by the Convention, and these have yet to be addressed within the new Proposal.

scholarly journals Refugees in Germany: Amongst Culture of Welcome and Xenophobia

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-74
Author(s):  
Sophia Marek
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Political ◽  
German Population ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Southeast Europe ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
Social Debate

The refugee crisis in Germany is a part of the European migrant crisis in connection with the immigration of high numbers of people arriving in the European Union (EU) from across the Mediterranean Sea or overland through Southeast Europe. This period reached its’ summit in 2015/2016 with over a million protection seekers arriving in Germany.The high influx of protection seekers in such a short time has caused a social debate in Germany on how to handle the high numbers of immigrants and arrange the political asylum. There are different views on the reception of migrants that range from the culture of welcome to xenophobia. This can be observed in the society, where a part of the population gets involved with the refugees’ integration, whereas another (increasing) part foments anti-immigrant sentiments. Between those beliefs, many different attitudes and behaviors towards refugees can be found.This article discusses the situation of refugees and asylum seekers in Germany, concerning the divided opinions reaching from a culture of welcome to xenophobia. It addresses the transformation that Germany is currently undergoing and gives several examples of incidents of and against refugees that affect the mindset of the German population.

“We Speak the Truth!”

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-80
Author(s):  
Sari Hanafi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Science ◽  
The Political ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Qualifications

This study investigates the preachers and their Friday sermons in Lebanon, raising the following questions: What are the profiles of preachers in Lebanon and their academic qualifications? What are the topics evoked in their sermons? In instances where they diagnosis and analyze the political and the social, what kind of arguments are used to persuade their audiences? What kind of contact do they have with the social sciences? It draws on forty-two semi-structured interviews with preachers and content analysis of 210 preachers’ Friday sermons, all conducted between 2012 and 2015 among Sunni and Shia mosques. Drawing from Max Weber’s typology, the analysis of Friday sermons shows that most of the preachers represent both the saint and the traditional, but rarely the scholar. While they are dealing extensively with political and social phenomena, rarely do they have knowledge of social science

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