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Publication details [#64846]

Wroe, Lauren Elizabeth. 2018. ‘It really is about telling people who asylum seekers really are, because we are human like anybody else’: Negotiating victimhood in refugee advocacy work. Discourse & Society 29 (3) : 324–343.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialogue | discourse | discourse analysis | language use | migration

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines how refugee advocates, and refugees themselves, control social enmity towards refugees and migrants via their talk, especially how this enmity is controlled via orientation to the ‘victim’ class.