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Publication details [#65985]

Archakis, Argiris and Villy Tsakona. 2019. Racism in recent Greek migrant jokes. Humor 32 (2) : 267–288.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

Migrant jokes appear to be part of Greek majority’s reply to the migration ‘threat’ against national sovereignty and linguocultural homogeneity. They render and rivet xenophobia and racism by depicting migrants as ‘dangerous invaders’ in the Greek territory and as ‘culturally inferior’ people.