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- W1626484611 abstract "The goal of this thesis is to investigate language use among elite parliamentariansin debates related to refugee asylum. It challenges the non-political “taken for granted”notions that many parliamentarians employ in their speeches and, using Critical DiscourseAnalysis, seeks to understand how argumentation, legitimation, and Othering strategiesare used to support and reinforce their positions. While the Conservative governmentcontends that Bill C-11: The Balanced Refugee Reform Act and Bill C-31: ProtectingCanada’s Immigration System Act are aimed at refugee reform and designed to target“criminal middlemen,” I argue that their approach is actually aimed at restricting refugeeasylum, despite the fact that it is an internationally recognized treaty right. To augmentmy efforts, I frame my analysis around the work of two key theorists: Antonio Gramsciand Zygmunt Bauman.The Gramscian model of cultural hegemony informs my thesis in at least two keyways: first, I argue that language use (specifically, the negative portrayal of asylumseekers) is manipulated for the sole purpose of presenting refugee claimants as criminals;second, by criminalizing certain groups, the Conservative government is able to putforward a particular worldview that portrays certain types of refugees as legitimate, andtherefore deserving of protection. I contend, however, that cultural hegemony isinsufficient to explain how the Conservatives are able to propagate this worldview giventhat cultural hegemony is primarily driven by ideology. While contemporary Canadianpolitical ideologies differ significantly, opposition parties nonetheless unintentionallyreproduce a Conservative worldview regarding asylum seekers. In its place, I argue that banal hegemony helps to explain this discrepancy. Bauman’s discussion of mobility isrelevant given that I assess how asylum seekers are framed as illegals whose ability toseek asylum is restrained. Restricting or controlling mobility is central to theConservative defense precisely because those who cannot arrive in Canada are unable tomake an asylum claim. In fact, over the past few years, there has been a movement to“push the border out.”I conclude that the Conservative defense is not only fallacious, untenable, andprejudicial but designed to portray asylum seekers are criminals, fraudsters, and securitythreats. This thesis adds to the extant literature on Critical Discourse Analysis from aCanadian parliamentary perspective and describes how politics is constituted by, andthrough, language. Moreover, it offers a sociological understanding of how parliamentarydebates help to produce and reproduce social inequality and prejudice." @default.
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- W1626484611 date "2015-04-01" @default.
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- W1626484611 title "Defending the indefensible? The use of argumentation, legitimation, and othering in debates on refugees in the Canadian House of Commons, 2010-2012" @default.
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