National Rhetorics in the Syrian Immigration Crisis
Victims, Frauds, and Floods
Will be published approx. on 1. October 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-61186-328-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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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Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing, MI
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
481 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61186-328-4 (9781611863284)
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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.
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.
Content
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 CvetkovicMiller
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
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 CvetkovicMiller
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