'A phantom menace and the new Apartheid': The social construction of asylum-seekers in the United Kingdom

Discourse and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 425-452

  Lynn, Nick ^a   Lea, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asylum seekers; Discourse; New Apartheid; Refugees; Resistance; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142749963     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926503014004002     Document Type: Review

References (82)

1. Althusser, L. (1971) Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. London: New Left Books.
2. Angler, C. (1992) Jean Rhys: Life and Work. London: Andre Deutsch.
3. Austin, J. (1962) How to Do Things With Words. London: Oxford University Press.
4. Bakhtin, M.M. (1981) The Dialogic Imagination. Austin: University of Texas.
5. Balibar, E. (1991) 'Is There a Neo-racism?', in E. Balibar and I. Wallerstein (eds) Race, Nation and Class: Ambiguous Identities, pp. 17-28. London: Verso.
6. Barker, M. (1981) The New Racism. London: Junction Books.
7. Barnes, R., Auburn, T. and Lea, S.J. (2003) 'Citizenship in Practice', British Journal of Social Psychology, submitted.
8. Barthes, R. (1957) Mythologies. London: Paladin.
9. Bhabba, H. (1994) The Location of Culture. London: Routledge.
10. Billig, M. (1987) Arguing and Thinking: A Rhetorical Approach to Social Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
11. Billig, M. (1991) Ideology and Opinions. London: Sage.
12. Billig, M. (1995) Banal Nationalism. London: Sage.
13. Billig, M. (1996) Arguing and Thinking. A Rhetorical Approach to Social Psychology, new edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
14. Billig, M., Condor, S., Edwards, D., Gane, M., Middleton, D. and Radley, A.R. (1988) Ideological Dilemmas: A Social Psychology of Everyday Thinking. London: Sage.
15. Bloch, A. (1999) As If Being a Refugee Isn't Hard Enough: The Policy of Exclusion', in P. Cohen (ed.) New Ethnicities, Old Racisms?, pp 113-31. London: Zed Books.
16. Burr, V. (1995) An Introduction to Social Constructionism. London: Routledge.
17. Cohen, R. (1994) Frontiers of Identity: The British and the Others. London: Longman.
18. Cohen, S. (1972) Folk Devils and Moral Panics. London: MacGibben & Kee.
19. Cook, D. (1993) 'Racism, Citizenship and Exclusion', in D. Cook and B. Hudson (eds) Racism and Criminology, pp. 136-57, London: Sage.
20. Dworkin, A. (1981) Pornography: Men Possessing Women. New York: Dutton.
21. Edwards, D. (1991) 'Categories are for Talking: On the Cognitive and Discursive Bases of Categorization', Theory and Psychology 1(4): 515-42.
22. Edwards, D. and Potter, J. (1992) Discursive Psychology. London: Sage.
23. Fairclough, N. (1992) Discourse and Social Change. Cambridge: Polity Press.
24. Fawcett, B. (1996) Women, Mental Health and Community Care: An Abusive Combination?', in B. Fawcett, B. Featherstone, J. Hearn and C. Toft (eds) Violence and Gender Relations: Theories and Interventions, pp. 81-97. London: Sage.
25. Fenton, S. (1999) Ethnicity, Racism, Class and Culture. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
26. Foss, K.A. (1987) 'Sojourner Truth', in B.K. Duffy and H.R. Ryan (eds) American Orators Before 1900: Critical Studies and Sources, pp. 385-90. New York: Greenwood.
27. Foucault, M. (1967) Madness and Civilization. London: Routledge.
28. Fowler, R. (1991) Language in the News: Discourse and Ideology in the Press. London: Routledge.
29. Gergen, K. (1999) An Invitation to Social Construction. London: Sage.
30. Gilbert, G.N. and Mulkay, M. (1984) Opening Pandora's Box. A Sociological Analysis of Scientist's Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
31. Gill, A.M. and Whedbee, K. (1997) 'Rhetoric', in T. van Dijk (ed.) Discourse as Structure and Process, pp. 157-84. London: Sage.
32. Gilroy, P. (1993) Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures. London: Serpents Tail.
33. Goffman, E. (1963) Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. London: Penguin.
34. Goode, E. and Ben-Yehuda, N. (1994) Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance. Oxford: Blackwell.
35. Gough, B. and McFadden, M. (2001) Critical Social Psychology: An Introduction. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
36. Hall, S. (1978) 'Racism and Moral Panics in Post War Britain', in Five Views of Multi-Racial Britain. London: Commission for Racial Equality.
37. Hay, C. (1996) 'Narrating Crisis: The Discursive Construction of the Winter of Discontent', Sociology 30 (2): 253-77.
38. Hechter, M. (1975) Internal Colonialism. Berkeley: University of California Press.
39. Hier, S.P. and Greenberg, J.L. (2002) 'Constructing a Discursive Crisis: Risk, Problematization and Illegal Chinese in Canada', Ethnic and Racial Studies 25(3): 490-531.
40. Hewitt, J. and Stokes, R. (1975) 'Disclaimers', American Sociological Review 40: 1-11.
41. Holmes, C. (1991) A Tolerant Country? Immigrants, Refugees and Minorities in Britain. London: Faber & Faber.
42. Jackson, P. and Penrose, J. (1993) 'Introduction: Placing "Race" And Nation', in P. Jackson and J Penrose (eds) Constructions of Race, Place and Nation. London: UCL Press.
43. Jary, D. and Jary, J. (1995) Collins Dictionary of Sociology. Glasgow: Harper Collins.
44. Kristeva, J. (1986) 'Word, Dialogue and Novel', In T. Moi (ed.) The Kristeva Reader, pp. 34-61. Oxford: Blackwell.
45. Leach, J. (2000) 'Rhetorical Analysis', in M. Bauer and G. Gaskell (eds) Qualitative Researching with Text, Image and Sound: A Practical Handbook, pp. 207-27. London: Sage.
46. Leishmann, F. (1999) 'Policing in Japan: East Asian Archetype', in R.I. Mawby (ed.) Policing Across the World, Issues for the Twenty First Century, pp 109-27. London: UCL Press.
47. McDonald, I. and Uqra, S. (1999)-'It's Just Not Cricketl Ethnicity, Division and Imagining the Other in English Cricket', in P. Cohen (ed.) New Ethnicities, Old Racisms?, pp. 163-79. London: Zed Books.
48. McLellan, D. (1986) Ideology. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
49. Mehan, H. (1997) 'The Discourse of the Illegal Immigration Debate: A Case Study in the Politics of Representation', Discourse & Society 8(2): 249-70.
50. Michels, R. (1911) Political Parties; A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy, New York: Collier.
51. Morrison, A. and Love, A. (1996) 'A Discourse of Disillusionment: Letters to the Editor in Two Zimbabwean Magazines After Independence', Discourse and Society 7: 39-75.
52. Myerson, G. (1994) Rhetoric, Reason and Society: Rationality as Dialogue. London: Sage.
53. Negrine, R. (1991) Politics and the Mass Media in Britain. London: Routledge.
54. Obeng, S.G. (1997) 'Language and Politics: Indirectness in Political Discourse', Discourse & Society 8: 49-83.
55. Parker, I. (1992) Discourse Dynamics: Critical Analysis for Social and Individual Psychology. London: Routledge.
56. Perelman, C. and Olbrechts-Tyteca, L. (1971) The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
57. Pomerantz, A. (1986) 'Extreme Case Formulations: A New Way of Legitimating Claims', Human Studies 9: 219-30.
58. Potter, J. and Wetherell, M. (1987) Discourse and Social Psychology: Beyond Attitudes and Behaviour. London: Sage.
59. Rapley, M. (1998) '"Just an Ordinary Australian": Self Categorization and the Discursive Construction of Facticity in "New Racist" Political Rhetoric', British Journal of Social Psychology 37: 325-44.
60. Reeves, F. (1983) British Racial Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
61. Rex, J. and Tomlinson, S. (1979) Colonial Immigrants in a British City: A Class Analysis. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
62. Richardson, J.E. (2001) '"Now is the Time to Put an End to All This": Argumentative Discourse Theory and "Letters to the Editor"', Discourse & Society 12: 143-68.
63. Riggins, S. (1997) 'The Rhetoric of Othering', in S. Riggins (ed.) The Language and Politics of Exclusion: Others in Discourse, pp. 1-31. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
64. Rojo, L.M and Van Dijk, T. (1997) '"There is a Problem, and It was Solved!": Legitimating the Expulsion of "Illegal" Migrants in Spanish Parliamentary Discourse', Discourse & Society 8: 523-66.
65. Said, E.W. (1985) Orientalism. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
66. Said, E.W. (1993) Culture and Imperialism. London: Chatto & Windus.
67. Santa Ana, O. (1999) '"Like an Animal I was Treated": Anti-Immigrant Metaphor in US Public Discourse', Discourse & Society 10: 191-224.
68. Sarup, M. (1996) Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
69. Sibley, D. (1997) 'Endangering the Sacred. Nomads, Youth Cultures and the English Countryside', in P. Cloke and J. Little (eds) Contested Countryside Cultures: Otherness, Marginalisation and Rurality, pp. 218-31. London: Routledge.
70. Smith, S.J. (1993) 'Immigration and Nation-Building in Canada and the United Kingdom', in P. Jackson and J Penrose (eds) Constructions of Race, Place and Nation, pp. 50-77. London: UCL Press.
71. Thiesmeyer, L. (1995) 'The Discourse of Official Violence: Anti Japanese North American Discourse and the American Internment Camps', Discourse & Society 6: 319-52.
72. Van Dijk, T. (1991) Racism and the Press. London: Routledge.
73. Van Dijk, T. (1993) Elite Discourse and Racism. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
74. Van Dijk, T. (1996) 'Illegal Aliens', Discourse & Society 7: 291-2.
75. Van Dijk, T. (1997a) 'Political Discourse and Racism: Describing Others in Western Parliaments', in S. Riggins (ed.) The Language and Politics of Exclusion: Others in Discourse, pp. 31-65. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
76. Van Dijk, T. (1997b) 'Applied Discourse Studies', Discourse & Society 8: 451-2.
77. Van Dijk, T., Ting-Toomey, S., Smitherman, G. and Troutman, D. (1997) 'Discourse, Ethnicity, Culture and Racism', in T. van Dijk (ed.) Discourse as Social Interaction, 144-80. London: Sage.
78. Verkuyten, M., de Jong, W. and Masson, C. (1995) 'The Construction of Ethnic Categories: Discourses of Ethnicity in the Netherlands', Ethnic & Racial Studies 18(2): 251-76.
79. Verkuyten, M. (2001) '"Abnormalization" of Ethnic Minorities in Conversation', British Journal of Social Psychology 40: 257-78.
80. Wooffitt, R. (1992) Telling Tales of the Unexpected: The Organization of Factual Discourse. London: Sage.
81. Wright Mills, C. (1959) The Sociological Imagination. Harmondsworth: Pelican.
82. Zimmerman, D. (1998) 'Identity, Context and Interaction' in C. Antaki and S. Widdicombe (eds) Identities in Talk, pp. 87-106. London: Sage.