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‘Taking advantage’ or fleeing persecution? : Opposing accounts of asylum seeking
journal contribution
posted on 2017-12-06, 00:00 authored by Danielle EveryDanielle Every, M AugoustinosThis paper discursively analyses advocates’ explanations of asylum seeking in the 2001 Australian parliamentary debates. Previous research has mapped the negative discourses used to present asylum seekers as economic migrants ‘taking advantage’ of soft laws. This paper analyses how advocates oppose this rhetoric, re-categorising asylum seekers as potential refugees,and establishing Australia as legally and morally responsible for providing protection. This paper examines three influences shaping advocates’ arguments: opposing anti-asylum seeker rhetoric; theories of the formation of anti-asylum seeker public opinion; and the parliamentary and wider liberal democratic intellectual political framework. It then analyses four extracts taken from political speeches in the parliament, focussing on the rhetoricalstrategies used to counter a pervasive ‘culture of disbelief’ against asylum seekers.
History
Volume
12Issue
5Start Page
648End Page
667Number of Pages
20eISSN
1467-9841ISSN
1360-6441Location
United KingdomPublisher
Wiley-BlackwellPublisher DOI
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Language
en-ausPeer Reviewed
- Yes
Open Access
- No
External Author Affiliations
TBA Research Institute; University of Adelaide; University of South Australia;Era Eligible
- Yes