TY - JOUR
T1 - Infesting our country: discursive illusions in anti-immigration border talk
AU - Jenks, Christopher Joseph
AU - Bhatia, Aditi
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This paper investigates how, despite the need to flee dangerous regions, online and print newspapers rely on negative portrayals of migrants and immigrants to forward nationalist positions, including the belief that so-called foreigners are a threat to the security and economic well-being of a nation. Specifically, using the Discourse of Illusion as our main analytic framework, the analysis demonstrates the ways in which dehumanization is central to forwarding ideological positions against migration. Our findings are then used to discuss larger issues of how media is transforming the ways in which political ideologies are constructed and circulated.
AB - This paper investigates how, despite the need to flee dangerous regions, online and print newspapers rely on negative portrayals of migrants and immigrants to forward nationalist positions, including the belief that so-called foreigners are a threat to the security and economic well-being of a nation. Specifically, using the Discourse of Illusion as our main analytic framework, the analysis demonstrates the ways in which dehumanization is central to forwarding ideological positions against migration. Our findings are then used to discuss larger issues of how media is transforming the ways in which political ideologies are constructed and circulated.
KW - Immigration
KW - borders
KW - critical discourse analysis
KW - media
KW - migrants
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85079044466&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14708477.2020.1722144
DO - 10.1080/14708477.2020.1722144
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1470-8477
VL - 20
SP - 81
EP - 94
JO - Language and Intercultural Communication
JF - Language and Intercultural Communication
IS - 2
ER -