Jenicek, Lee and Wong, ‘”Dangerous Shortcuts”‘, 2009
- Category: Literature
- Source: Academic
- Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Gender Identity, Refugee/Asylum, LGBT+
- Place: Americas
- Year: 2009
- File: Dangerous_Shortcuts_Representations_of
- URL: https://www.academia.edu/1474265/_Dangerous_Shortcuts_Representations_of_LGBT_Refugees_in_the_Post-9_11_Canadian_Press?source=swp_share
Ainsley Jenicek, Edward Lee and Alan D. Wong, ‘”Dangerous Shortcuts”: Representations of LGBT Refugees in the Post-9/11 Canadian Press’, Canadian Journal of Communications 34.4 (2009), 635-658
Abstract
Canadian newspapers are a principal source of information on refugees claiming asylum in Canada on the basis of persecution for their sexual orientation. Many articles rely on culturally racist and classist stereotypes of sexual minorities to demonstrate claimants’ legitimacy. Refugees’ stories are further deployed as “mediating agents” to confirm Canada’s “superiority” over other regions, particularly those identified as Islamic. To determine what thematic constructions are most prevalent among Canadian news sources, the authors conducted a critical discourse analysis (CDA) and secondary textual analysis of articles culled from five Canadian English-language newspapers, employing critical race and queer theories as framing devices.
Keywords: Post-colonialism; Multiculturalism; Feminist/Gender; Newspapers; Rhetoric