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.
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"This is a fascinating volume. Identifying and interpreting the changing immigration rhetoric of national leaders in ten countries, it puts the findings into a rich historical and political context. Enabling comparative analysis, the book identifies differences between national rhetorics but also common argumentative and metaphorical framings, which, in shaping how people think of 'us' and 'them,' have become central to politics around the globe."
-Alan Finlayson, Professor of Political and Social Theory, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
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Clarke Rountree is Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Working primarily in legal and political rhetoric, he has published dozens of essays and five books, including Judging the Supreme Court: Constructions of Motives in Bush v. Gore, which won the Kohrs-Campbell Prize in Rhetorical Criticism.
Jouni Tilli is Research Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. His dissertation on clerical war rhetoric won the Best Dissertation Award (University of Jyvaeskylae), and his monograph Suomen pyhae sota (Finland's holy war) won the 2014 Christian Book of the Year Award (Finland). In 2017 he was given the Emerging Scholar Award by the Kenneth Burke Society.
Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Immigration Rhetoric of Political Leaders in Turkey: From Guest Metaphor to Emphasis on National Interest \ Inan OEzdemir Tastan and Hatice Coban Kenes Serbian Migration Rhetoric: They Are Only Passing Through \ Ivana Cvetkovic Miller Political Rhetoric in the Refugee Crisis in Greece \ Yiannis Karayiannis and Anthoula Malkopoulou Viktor Orban's Anti-Brussels Rhetoric in Hungary: Barely Able to Keep Europe Christian? \ Heino Nyyssoenen Why Do Poles Oppose Immigrants? The Polish Political Elite's (Anti-)Immigration Rhetoric \ Jaroslaw Janczak Fluechtlingsrepublik Deutschland: Divided Again \ Julia Khrebtan-Hoerhager and Elisa I. Hoerhager 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 Andree E. Reeves Conclusion Contributors Index
