National Rhetorics in the Syrian Immigration Crisis: Victims, Frauds, and Floods - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1611863287 ISBN 13 : 9781611863284

Editeur : Michigan State University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Michigan State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1611863287
• ISBN 13: 9781611863284
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Éditeur: Rountree Clarke, Tilli Jouni
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible