The Politics of Selectivity : Online Newspaper Coverage of Refugees Entering Canada and the United States

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Authors	JAWORSKY Bernadette Nadya
Year of publication	2020
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Social Studies
Citation
Web	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15562948.2019.1702750?journalCode=wimm20
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2019.1702750
Keywords	media; cultural sociology; deservingness; United States; Canada
Attached files	Politics_of_Selectivity.pdf
Description	While scholarly work on Europe’s latest “refugee crisis” has blossomed, less attention has focused on the U.S. and Canada. My research centers on newspaper coverage of refugees entering these two countries, before and after the Paris terrorist attacks of November 13, 2015. I conduct a comparative, cultural sociological analysis of 318 online news articles, reconstructing a system of meaning I call The Politics of Selectivity, in which refugees are portrayed as un/deserving of resettlement. A deep, interpretive reading of the data reveals three dimensions of this political arena in which explicit, implicit, and conditional criteria for accepting refugees are articulated.
Related projects:	Newspaper Coverage of Refugees Entering the U.S. and Canada Before and After the Paris Terrorist Attacks of November 2015 Migration and Social Inequality: Cultural Sociological Perspectives