'Oh you don't want asylum seekers, oh you're just racist': A discursive analysis of discussions about whether it's racist to oppose asylum seeking

Discourse and Society

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 325-340

  Goodman, Simon ^a   Burke, Shani ^a  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asylum seeking; Construction of racism; Discursive psychology; Prejudice; Taboo on prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952366255     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926509360743     Document Type: Article

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