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Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisisEdited by Lorella Viola and Andreas Musolff
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 81] 2019
► pp. 265–290
Chapter 11Displaced Ukrainians
Russo-Ukrainian discussions of victims from the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine
This paper compares several discourse representations of migrants in the British media with the data on Ukrainian displaced people from the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine. The comparison shows that mainstream media in Russia and Ukraine attempt to depict displaced Ukrainians sympathetically, to win the hearts and minds of the people from the disputed conflict zone and to evoke approval from the international community. Participants in online debates in both countries actively use different techniques of negativisation of the images of migrants. They often either rely on a novel vocabulary for abuses or adapt old disparaging expressions activating cultural prejudices. The paper concludes that Russian and Ukrainian sets of abuse developed during the confrontation reinforce the specifics of the national vision of the conflict development.
Keywords: humanitarianism, negativisation, numerical elements, scroungers, catastrophe scenario, Russia, Ukraine, social media, official media, stereotypes, disparaging expressions
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Data and method
- 3.“Numbers”, “figures”, and “masses”: Are they perceived as a threat?
- 3.1Numbers and figures
- 3.2Masses of water
- 4.Agents of evil as activators of topoi of economic burden and threat
- 4.1Use of “parasite”-terminology
- 4.2Russian stereotypes about Ukrainians
- 4.3New names for terrorists and victims of propaganda
- 5.Representations of victims and aggressors
- 5.1Refugees as victims
- 5.2Blending victims and persecutors
- 5.3IDPs as supporters of the aggressor
- 6.Conclusions
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Published online: 07 March 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.81.12abe
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.81.12abe
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