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Chapter 11. The Roma as ultimate European minority and ultimate outsider?

The framing of the Roma in newspapers following a human-rights violation
  • Chloë Delcour und Lesley Hustinx
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Representing the Other in European Media Discourses
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Abstract

In order to understand the paradoxical position of the Roma as the subject of both European inclusion programmes and persistent exclusionary practices, this chapter focuses on the interaction of both inclusionary and exclusionary frames used in discussions in the Flemish newspaper media following a human-rights violation. The case concerns the Belgian government’s expulsion of Slovak Roma migrants in 1999 (the Čonka case). Proceeding from the sociology of human rights and the principles of critical discourse analysis (CDA), we analyse 212 newspaper articles from the period 1999–2002. Based on this analysis, we identify the following connections between the inclusionary and exclusionary conceptualizations of Roma migrants: (1) an emphasis on the excluded character of the Roma, (2) the possibility that they are “deserving” of expulsion and (3) the dominance of the nation-state model within the context of migration. These results illustrate the complexity with which inclusionary and exclusionary discourses can be intertwined, thereby contributing to sociological research concerning human-rights practices and advancing CDA research on “discursive othering” beyond a sole focus on exclusionary discourses.

Abstract

In order to understand the paradoxical position of the Roma as the subject of both European inclusion programmes and persistent exclusionary practices, this chapter focuses on the interaction of both inclusionary and exclusionary frames used in discussions in the Flemish newspaper media following a human-rights violation. The case concerns the Belgian government’s expulsion of Slovak Roma migrants in 1999 (the Čonka case). Proceeding from the sociology of human rights and the principles of critical discourse analysis (CDA), we analyse 212 newspaper articles from the period 1999–2002. Based on this analysis, we identify the following connections between the inclusionary and exclusionary conceptualizations of Roma migrants: (1) an emphasis on the excluded character of the Roma, (2) the possibility that they are “deserving” of expulsion and (3) the dominance of the nation-state model within the context of migration. These results illustrate the complexity with which inclusionary and exclusionary discourses can be intertwined, thereby contributing to sociological research concerning human-rights practices and advancing CDA research on “discursive othering” beyond a sole focus on exclusionary discourses.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Media representations of the “other” Europeans 1
  4. Part I. Othering as political and media practice
  5. Chapter 1. Orbán’s Hungary 25
  6. Chapter 2. Togetherness or othering? 55
  7. Chapter 3. The European “stranger” in Le Monde ’s headline discourse 81
  8. Chapter 4. Profiling of new Europeans in the British conservative press 103
  9. Chapter 5. Construing the Other 121
  10. Chapter 6. Discursive legitimation of criminalization and victimization of sub-Saharan immigrants in Spanish El País and ABC newspapers 135
  11. Part II. Othering as interpersonal and interactional practice
  12. Chapter 7. Negotiating an identity 157
  13. Chapter 8. Representations of Eastern Europeans in the UK in reader comments of two British online newspapers 183
  14. Chapter 9. Othering others 207
  15. Chapter 10. The othering of Roma migrants in British and Czech online news discussion forums 235
  16. Chapter 11. The Roma as ultimate European minority and ultimate outsider? 259
  17. Chapter 12. Othering in Estonian online discussions about refugees 281
  18. Contributors 305
  19. Index 309
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.74.12del

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Media representations of the “other” Europeans 1
  4. Part I. Othering as political and media practice
  5. Chapter 1. Orbán’s Hungary 25
  6. Chapter 2. Togetherness or othering? 55
  7. Chapter 3. The European “stranger” in Le Monde ’s headline discourse 81
  8. Chapter 4. Profiling of new Europeans in the British conservative press 103
  9. Chapter 5. Construing the Other 121
  10. Chapter 6. Discursive legitimation of criminalization and victimization of sub-Saharan immigrants in Spanish El País and ABC newspapers 135
  11. Part II. Othering as interpersonal and interactional practice
  12. Chapter 7. Negotiating an identity 157
  13. Chapter 8. Representations of Eastern Europeans in the UK in reader comments of two British online newspapers 183
  14. Chapter 9. Othering others 207
  15. Chapter 10. The othering of Roma migrants in British and Czech online news discussion forums 235
  16. Chapter 11. The Roma as ultimate European minority and ultimate outsider? 259
  17. Chapter 12. Othering in Estonian online discussions about refugees 281
  18. Contributors 305
  19. Index 309
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