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Dalia Abdelhady

Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer

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Framing the Syrian Refugee: : Divergent Discourses in Three National Contexts

Author

  • Dalia Abdelhady

Editor

  • Cecilia Menjvar
  • Marie Ruiz
  • Immanuel Ness

Summary, in English

Focusing on the construction of the “refugee crisis” in mainstream daily newspapers in Sweden, Jordan, and Turkey in 2015, this chapter disentangles the crisis discourse into its specific components. Newspapers in the three countries focused on the “refugee crisis” as a source of concern for policy and politics at the local, national, and global levels. In comparing the discourses in the three contexts, despite their many differences, the analysis shows that the “refugee crisis” is constructed around uncertainties and inabilities to fathom the demands and consequences of such inflows of large numbers of people. Such uncertainties provide the basis on which a sense of moral, communal, or institutional crises become understood as a refugee crisis in different settings.

Department/s

  • Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
  • MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World

Publishing year

2019

Language

English

Pages

635-635

Publication/Series

The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Topic

  • Sociology

Keywords

  • media narratives
  • Refugee crisis
  • Sweden
  • Jordan
  • Turkey
  • Representation

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9780190856908
  • ISBN: 9780190856939