Refugees versus ‘refugees’: the role of Islamophobia in Swedish alternative media’s reporting on Ukrainian asylum seekers

IF 2.3 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
Amanda Palmgren, Mathilda Åkerlund, Lisen Viklund
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This paper analyses how immigrants are understood by Swedish alternative media and the role that Islamophobia plays, if at all, in these representations. What is remarkable is that although all articles were sampled explicitly to discuss Ukraine, the analysis showed that Muslim immigrants figured with unexpected frequency throughout. The value of these two immigrant groups were antagonistically contrasted through arguments of alleged differences in culture and geographical origin, perceived legitimacy as asylum seekers, and in terms gratitude and supposed level of threat to Swedish society. With this, the unity that is formed around Islamophobia trumps any nationalist views of the Swedish nation state as particularly superior or white and the social and economic consequences which are usually believed to be at risk due to immigration. By extension, the war in Ukraine is articulated as a matter of whiteness and works to exploit war for strengthening the transnational far right.
难民与“难民”:伊斯兰恐惧症在瑞典另类媒体对乌克兰寻求庇护者的报道中的作用
本文分析了瑞典另类媒体是如何理解移民的,以及伊斯兰恐惧症在这些表述中所扮演的角色。值得注意的是,尽管所有的文章都明确地讨论了乌克兰,但分析显示,穆斯林移民的出现频率出乎意料。这两个移民群体的价值通过所谓的文化和地理来源的差异,作为寻求庇护者的合法性,以及对瑞典社会的感激和所谓的威胁程度的争论进行了对立的对比。因此,围绕伊斯兰恐惧症形成的团结压倒了任何民族主义观点,即瑞典民族国家特别优越或白人,以及通常被认为因移民而面临风险的社会和经济后果。推而远之,乌克兰战争被表述为白人问题,并试图利用战争来加强跨国极右翼。
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期刊介绍: Media, Culture & Society provides a major international forum for the presentation of research and discussion concerning the media, including the newer information and communication technologies, within their political, economic, cultural and historical contexts. It regularly engages with a wider range of issues in cultural and social analysis. Its focus is on substantive topics and on critique and innovation in theory and method. An interdisciplinary journal, it welcomes contributions in any relevant areas and from a worldwide authorship.
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