“Sad day for the UK”: The linking of debates about settling refugee children in the UK with Brexit on an anti‐immigrant news website

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dc.contributor.authorGoodman, Simon
dc.contributor.authorNarang, Amrtia
dc.date.acceptance2019-02-11
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-23T10:54:57Z
dc.date.available2019-09-23T10:54:57Z
dc.date.issued2019-02-15
dc.descriptionThe file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.en
dc.description.abstractThis article uniquely demonstrates how UK debates about supporting child refugees during the “refugee crisis” came to be used as support for leaving the European Union (EU). The research question “how did users of a news website respond to a report about the UK government's decision to allow child refugees into the UK?” is addressed with a rigorous discursive analysis of an internet discussion forum on the anti‐immigrant website MailOnline consisting of 2,014 unique posts, with a reach of 30 million viewers. Analysis demonstrated that (1) child refugees were presented as adults, (2) allowing in refugees was presented as a “burden” on taxpayers, (3) the decision was presented as opposed to the public's will, and (4) this was used as a warrant for leaving the EU. The significant implication of this analysis is that political attempts at associating the refugee crisis with the EU may have been successful in this context.en
dc.exception.ref2021codes254aen
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dc.identifier.citationGoodman, S. and Narang, A. (2019) “Sad day for the UK”: The linking of debates about settling refugee children in the UK with Brexit on an anti‐immigrant news website. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49 (6), pp. 1161-1172en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2579
dc.identifier.urihttps://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/18483
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.publisherWileyen
dc.subjectBrexiten
dc.subjectdiscourse analysisen
dc.subjectEuropean Unionen
dc.subjectmigrant crisisen
dc.subjectmigrantsen
dc.subjectrefugee crisisen
dc.subjectrefugeesen
dc.title“Sad day for the UK”: The linking of debates about settling refugee children in the UK with Brexit on an anti‐immigrant news websiteen
dc.typeArticleen

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