National rhetorics in the Syrian immigration crisis : victims, frauds, and floods / edited by Clarke Rountree and Jouni Tilli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rountree, Clarke.

Contributor:

Rountree, Clarke, 1958- editor.

Tilli, Jouni, 1979- editor.

Series:

Rhetoric and public affairs series.

Rhetoric and public affairs series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Syria--Case studies.

Refugees.

Political oratory--Case studies.

Political oratory.

Rhetoric--Political aspects--Case studies.

Rhetoric.

Syria--History--Civil War, 2011-.

Syria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2019]

Summary:

The Syrian refugee crisis seriously challenged countries in the Middle East, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere in the world. It provoked reactions from humanitarian generosity to anti-immigrant warnings of the destruction of the West. It contributed to the United Kingdom's "Brexit" from the European Union and the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States. This book is a unique study of rhetorical responses to the crisis through a comparative approach that analyzes the discourses of leading political figures in ten countries, including gateway, destination, and tertiary countries for immigration, such as Turkey, several European countries, and the United States. These national discourses constructed the crisis and its refugees so as to welcome or shun them, in turn shaping the character and identity of the receiving countries, for both domestic and international audiences, as more or less humanitarian, nationalist, Muslim-friendly, Christian, and so forth. This book is essential reading for scholars wishing to understand how European and other countries responded to this crisis, discursively constructing refugees, themselves, and an emerging world order.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Immigration Rhetoric of Political Leaders in Turkey: From Guest Metaphor to Emphasis on National Interest \ İnan Özdemir Taştan and Hatice Çoban Keneş

Serbian Migration Rhetoric: They Are Only Passing Through \ Ivana Cvetković Miller

Political Rhetoric in the Refugee Crisis in Greece \ Yiannis Karayiannis and Anthoula Malkopoulou

Viktor Orbán's Anti-Brussels Rhetoric in Hungary: Barely Able to Keep Europe Christian? \ Heino Nyyssönen

Why Do Poles Oppose Immigrants? The Polish Political Elite's (Anti-)Immigration Rhetoric \ Jarosław Jańczak

Flüchtlingsrepublik Deutschland: Divided Again \ Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager and Elisa I. Hörhager

The United Kingdom's Rhetoric of Immigration Management: The Syrian Immigration Crisis and Brexit \ Clarke Rountree, Kathleen Kirkland, and Ashlyn Edde

Finnish Discourses on Immigration, 2015-2016: Descendants of Ishmael, Welfare Surfers, and Economic Assets \ Jouni Tilli

Japan's Prime Minister Abe on the Syrian Refugee Crisis: A Discourse of Sending but Not Accepting \ Kaori Miyawaki

The United States' Immigration Rhetoric amid the Syrian Refugee Crisis: Presidents, Precedents, and Portents \ Ellen Gorsevski, Clarke Rountree, and Andrée E. Reeves

Conclusion

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62895-370-5

1-60917-607-3