Borders, Fences, and Limits-Protecting Austria From Refugees: Metadiscursive Negotiation of Meaning in the Current Refugee Crisis

The so-called refugee crisis presents a field of discursive struggle over meanings in politics. In Austria, mediatized politics in 2015 and 2016 was dominated by metadiscursive negotiation of terminology related to building a border fence and setting a maximum limit on refugees. Both issues raised s...

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Published in:Journal of immigrant & refugee studies 2018-04, Vol.16 (1-2), p.15-38
Main Authors: Rheindorf, Markus, Wodak, Ruth
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
body politics
border politics
Borders
Crises
Discourse analysis
discourse-historical approach
mediatization
nationalism
Negotiation
Otherness
Politics
refugee crisis
Refugees
right-wing populism
Terminology
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Summary:The so-called refugee crisis presents a field of discursive struggle over meanings in politics. In Austria, mediatized politics in 2015 and 2016 was dominated by metadiscursive negotiation of terminology related to building a border fence and setting a maximum limit on refugees. Both issues raised serious ideological and legal concerns and were thus largely euphemized; as responses to ever-increasing pressure from the political right, however, they were also intended as signals to voters. This article presents a discourse-historical study of the normalization of restrictive policies in the theoretical framework of border and body politics, otherness, and mediatization.
ISSN:1556-2948
1556-2956
DOI:10.1080/15562948.2017.1302032