Reporting Australia’s Asylum Seeker 'Crisis'
| العنوان: | Reporting Australia’s Asylum Seeker 'Crisis' |
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| المؤلفون: | Peter Mares |
| المصدر: | Media Asia. 29:71-76 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 2002. |
| سنة النشر: | 2002 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Linguistics and Language, business.industry, Communication, Displaced person, media_common.quotation_subject, Refugee, Comprehensive Plan of Action, Innocence, Gender studies, Compassion, Criminology, Convention, Agency (sociology), Medicine, business, Asylum seeker, Social Sciences (miscellaneous), media_common |
| الوصف: | This paper looks at the way the Australian media has reported the “crisis” of refugees and asylum seekers landing on Australia’s shores without authorisation. The author argues that the arrival of the “boat people” is in fact a “pseudo crisis” and that the level of anxiety attached to the issue is totally out of proportion with the actual “threat” posed by unauthorised migration.In general the level of concern and empathy expressed in the media for the plight of refugees and asylum seekers seems to be in inverse relation to their proximity. Viewed from a distance, displaced people are often portrayed as helpless victims of circumstance, deserving of compassion and assistance. However when refugees and asylum seekers make their way to Australia, or other developed nations, to seek protection under the 1951 Convention, this imagery changes dramatically. Refugees and asylum seekers who display this level of agency suddenly shed the veneer of innocence and become a threat to the order and security of ... |
| تدمد: | 2377-6277 0129-6612 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::014e0a96b4826e07f18f4b84713ba35a https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2002.11726667 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........014e0a96b4826e07f18f4b84713ba35a |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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