Browsing by Subject "transnational discourses"

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    #RefugeesNotWelcome: Making Gendered Sense of Transnational Asylum Politics on Twitter
    (The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2016) Ingulfsen, Inga Helgudóttir
    This paper explores strategies to justify refugee exclusion that are employed by Twitter users who tweet with the hashtag #refugeesnotwelcome. The tweets, understood as transnational nodes of discourse within a transnational platform for identity politics, are analyzed by combining particular theories of nationalism and immigration that are concerned with the gendered cultural construction of identity politics. I demonstrate how the Twitter users imagine themselves as a White Western Enlightened community in binary opposition to refugees who are cast as threats to the community’s racial and cultural preservation, and show how the construction of these binary oppositions relies on inherently gendered discursive strategies.