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Welfare restrictions and ‘benefit tourists’: Representations and evaluations of EU migrants in the UK.
- Source :
- Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research; Aug2018, Vol. 43 Issue 3, p379-401, 23p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Abstract This article investigates online representations and evaluations of EU migrants, focusing on the notion of ‘benefit tourism’ and discursive strategies used in the (de)legitimization of new welfare restrictions in the UK. Through the examination of online newspapers and corresponding public comment threads, this article adopts theoretical and methodological premises from Critical Discourse Studies (CDS), drawing upon the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to provide both a politically motivated as well as reflexive account. Although new participatory structures allow for resistance to emerge, the openness, scalability and anonymity of the internet also allows for the spread of discrimination through the construction of EU migrants (in particular Bulgarians and Romanians) as the ‘Other’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CRITICAL discourse analysis
REFUGEES
SOCIAL media
ELECTRONIC newspapers
IMMIGRANTS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03412059
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 131069048
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2018-0015