Asylum Seekers in Australian News Media: Mediated (In)humanity

Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Tables
1: Introduction
	References
2: Asylum Seekers in the Australian News Media: What Do We Know So Far?
	Introduction
	Seeking Asylum in Australia: The Political Landscape
	News Media and Societal Discourses
	Audience Perspectives and the Questions that Remain
	References
3: Concepts, Methods, and Ethical Considerations
	Introduction
	Approach, Aims, and Research Questions
	Data Collection
		Sampling and Participants
		Interviews
	Theoretical Framework and Analytical Lens
		Settler Colonialism, Social Exclusivism, and Cosmopolitan Acceptance
		Understanding Discourse
		Discursive Approaches to News Values
		Researching News Audiences
	Analysis
	Ethical Considerations
	References
4: ‘Open the Floodgates’: Metaphor as a Tool for Legitimising Australia’s ‘Invasion’ Panic
	Introduction
	Australia’s Collective Fear of the Asylum Seeker ‘Other’
		Mediated Sensationalism and Moral Panics
		Water and Containment Metaphors
	Australian News Audience Perspectives
		‘Hordes of People Showing Up’: Audience Perspectives that Reflect Moral Panic Discourses
		‘I Can’t Blame People for Being Confused’: Resistance to Moral Panic Discourses
	Some ‘Flood’ for Thought?
	References
5: ‘Nation Prepares for War’: The Discursive Securitisation of Asylum Seekers
	Introduction
	The Discursive Securitisation of People Seeking Asylum in Australia
		Discourses of ‘Border Control’ and the Language of War
		State Sovereignty and the Exclusionary Rhetoric of Ethnonationalism
		Asylum Seekers as ‘Non-Human’
	Australian News Audience Perspectives
		‘Protect Your Own First’: Reproducing Securitisation Themes
		‘Just a Sales Pitch’: Responses to Securitisation Discourses in the Australian Media
	What Do Securitisation Discourses Achieve?
	References
6: ‘Fight Against Illegals’: Constructing Asylum Seekers Through Frames of Criminality and Illegitimacy
	Introduction
	Framing Asylum Seekers Along Discourses of Illegitimacy and Deviance
		Asylum Seekers as ‘Illegal’
		‘Genuine’ Refugees Versus ‘Queue Jumpers’
	Australian News Audience Perspectives
		‘You Have to Wait in the Queue’: Reproducing ‘Proper Channels’ and Illegitimacy Discourses
		‘Political Pawns’: Resisting Illegality Narratives and ‘Queue Jumper’ Framings About Asylum Seekers
	Criminalisation Narratives as an Agenda-Setting Exercise
	References
7: ‘Taxpayers Foot the Bill’: Scapegoating Asylum Seekers Through ‘Economic Migrants’ and ‘Burden’ Narratives
	Introduction
	The Positioning of Asylum Seekers as Economic Scapegoats
		Creating a Scapegoat
		The ‘Burden’ of People Seeking Asylum in Australia
		‘Economic Migrants’
	Australian News Audience Perspectives
		‘Taking Other People’s Jobs’: Constructing Asylum Seekers as ‘Burdens’ and ‘Economic Migrants’
		‘There’s No Evidence This Even Happens’: Critiques of Economic Scapegoating Discourses
	The Simultaneous Triumph and Failure of Economic Scapegoating Narratives
	References
8: Conclusion
	References
Index