scholarly journals Biometrics: constructing 'ideal' subjects and 'aliens' at the Canada-U.S. border

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirjana Mandaric
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Social Research ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Post September 11 ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Employing critical social research in combination with critical discourse analysis, this paper examines the use of biometrics technology in the citizenship and immigration context with particular emphasis on its application at the Canada-U.S. border. The central argument of thls paper is that through the use of biometrics technology at the Canada-U.S crossing, the border has become a social filter that separates welcome from unwelcome migrants depending on strategic objectives to include and exclude population groups, which makes them part of a social an economic strategy in the post-September 11 securitized environment. Moreover, the paper takes the position that through the use of biometrics technology at the Canada-U.S. border, the notion of citizenship is being reconstructed whereby racialized migrants and vulnerable populations will be tremendously affected: most notably, poor migrants from the South as well as refugees and asylum seekers from elsewhere.

scholarly journals Biometrics: constructing 'ideal' subjects and 'aliens' at the Canada-U.S. border

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirjana Mandaric
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Social Research ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Post September 11 ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Employing critical social research in combination with critical discourse analysis, this paper examines the use of biometrics technology in the citizenship and immigration context with particular emphasis on its application at the Canada-U.S. border. The central argument of thls paper is that through the use of biometrics technology at the Canada-U.S crossing, the border has become a social filter that separates welcome from unwelcome migrants depending on strategic objectives to include and exclude population groups, which makes them part of a social an economic strategy in the post-September 11 securitized environment. Moreover, the paper takes the position that through the use of biometrics technology at the Canada-U.S. border, the notion of citizenship is being reconstructed whereby racialized migrants and vulnerable populations will be tremendously affected: most notably, poor migrants from the South as well as refugees and asylum seekers from elsewhere.

Representations of refugees and asylum seekers during the 2013 federal election

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 1611-1629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kehla Lippi ◽  
Fiona H McKay ◽  
Hayley J McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
Print News ◽  
Before And After ◽  
International Obligations ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Immigration policy, arrival modes, human rights, and international obligations have all been part of the debate that has ensued over the Australian Government’s policy response towards refugees and asylum seekers. This debate was a central campaign focus in the lead up to the 2013 Australian federal election and was accompanied by extensive media coverage. This media coverage is a significant contributor to the representation of refugees and asylum seekers to the Australian public. This study explores how refugees and asylum seekers were represented in Australian print news media in the period immediately before and after the 2013 federal election. Using news framing and critical discourse analysis, this study examined 162 articles, published between 7 August and 8 October 2013, in Australian newspapers. The analysis revealed two opposing themes in the representation of asylum seekers: refugees and asylum seekers were represented as either a threat requiring a military intervention or as victims requiring management. The findings of this study demonstrate the ways in which the print media contribute to a polarised representation of refugees and asylum seekers and the potential deleterious effect of this dichotomous construction to an informed public opinion.

scholarly journals The Political Discourse Behind Canada’s Unusually Harsh Detention Practices: The MV Sun Sea Case

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaina Singh
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Analysis Strategy ◽  
The Government

On August 13th 2010, the MV Sun Sea ship carrying 492 Tamil asylum seekers arrived off of the coast of British Columbia. Immediately upon arrival the Tamil asylum seekers were detained for a prolonged period of time, subjected to intensified interrogation techniques, and unfairly questioned even when in possession of identifying documents. This paper examines how the government used political discourse to try and justify the unusually harsh detention of asylum seekers. Through a critical discourse analysis strategy, eight newspaper articles will be analyzed and the theories of securitization, discourse, and orientalism will be used to advance certain political ideologies. The political justifications of detention operate through the theme of the egocentric state, and the theme of categorizing and demonizing asylum seekers. The final theme discussed is the concept of victimization, which will offer an alternate perspective to this paper’s main focus on political discourse.

scholarly journals The problematization of asylum seekers a critical discourse analysis of Canadian national news media coverage

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Yu Vanti
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The U.S

Using the methodology of critical discourse analysis, this research project analysed 70 news media articles from the Globe and Mail and the National Post on the topic of asylum seekers who crossed into Canada from the U.S. between ports of entry in 2017 and 2018. Analysis revealed that asylum seekers were largely depicted, portrayed, and framed in problematizing ways, leading to their dehumanization and a decontextualization of the larger issues. Keywords: Asylum seekers; refugees; news media coverage; critical discourse analysis

scholarly journals The problematization of asylum seekers a critical discourse analysis of Canadian national news media coverage

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Yu Vanti
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The U.S

Using the methodology of critical discourse analysis, this research project analysed 70 news media articles from the Globe and Mail and the National Post on the topic of asylum seekers who crossed into Canada from the U.S. between ports of entry in 2017 and 2018. Analysis revealed that asylum seekers were largely depicted, portrayed, and framed in problematizing ways, leading to their dehumanization and a decontextualization of the larger issues. Keywords: Asylum seekers; refugees; news media coverage; critical discourse analysis

Media coverage of refugees and asylum seekers in regional Australia: a critical discourse analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 162 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Cooper ◽  
Erin Olejniczak ◽  
Caroline Lenette ◽  
Charlotte Smedley
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
National Level ◽  
Dominant Negative ◽  
Regional Newspapers ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Despite significant research into media and political coverage of refugees and asylum seekers, and ongoing Commonwealth policies to resettle refugees to regional areas, analysis of the regional press is lacking. We reviewed articles from four regional newspapers using quantitative content analysis and qualitative content analysis to examine some initial trends in how regional newspapers represent refugees and asylum seekers. Despite the dominant negative framing of refugee issues at the national level, the regional media used positive, humanising frames and a broader range of sources in articles on local topics such as refugees’ personal stories. This reflects the community-building role of local journalism and challenges the familiar boundaries of the debate. However, there was a compelling distinction between articles on local and national topics, with the negative national discourse and dominance of government sources reflected in articles on national topics such as legislation and events.

scholarly journals A critical discourse analysis approach to news discourses and social practices on race in Brazil

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Célia Maria Magalhães
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cautious Interpretation

In this paper I set out from Brazilian social theories on race to analyse a contemporary corpus of news reports in a Brazilian broadsheet newspaper. The aim is investigating change in mediated discourses on race. Based on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and with the help of corpus linguistics methodological tools I focus on lexical items used to categorise race, the semantic relations created and their association with discourse representation in the newspaper. The combined analysis of semantic relations and interdiscursivity has allowed for the perception of tensions over the use of terms from different semantic fields to categorize race and of conflicting discourses of race classification in the paper. The analysis has also allowed for a cautious interpretation of dialogicality and of different orientations to racial difference, following the social research inventories in Fairclough (2003) in the reports.

Mobilizing Victimhood: Situating the Victim in Canadian Conservatism

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Kelly Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Organizational Management ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Conservative Ideology ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
And Gender

Abstract This article offers an examination of the discursive significance of the “victim” in the Conservative Party of Canada through a critical discourse analysis of two key pieces of legislation (Bill C-10 and Bill C-36) tabled by the Harper Conservative government. The central argument contends that while all populist arguments may be a form of victim argument, not all conservative victim arguments are populist—particularly ones directed at issues related to women and gender equality. The article finds that, perhaps due to the reactive nature of conservative ideology, conservative politicians in Canada adopt an “ambidextrous” approach to victims—mobilizing two distinct and, at times, contrasting sets of arguments. The article concludes by proposing two possible explanations for this ambidexterity, one stemming from the literature on organizational management and the other from theorizations of the reactive nature of conservative ideology.

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