Abstract

While scholarly work on Europe’s latest “refugee crisis” has blossomed, less attention has focused on the United States and Canada. My research centers on newspaper coverage of refugees entering these two countries, before and after the Paris terrorist attacks of November 13, 2015. I conduct a comparative, cultural sociological analysis of 318 online news articles, reconstructing a system of meaning I call the Politics of Selectivity, in which refugees are portrayed as deserving or undeserving of resettlement. A deep, interpretive reading of the data reveals three dimensions of this political arena in which explicit, implicit, and conditional criteria for accepting refugees are articulated.

摘要

尽管有关欧洲最新的“难民危机”的学术研究蓬勃发展，但对美国和加拿大的关注却较少。我的研究重点是2015年11月13日巴黎恐怖袭击发生前后，针对进入这两个国家的难民的报纸报道。我对318篇在线新闻进行了比较文化社会学分析，构建了我称之为“政治政治”的意义系统选择性，将难民刻画为应得或不应重新安置。对数据的深入，解释性解读揭示了这个政治领域的三个方面，其中明确阐明了接受难民的明确，隐含和有条件的标准。