CRITICAL LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL STUDIES APPROACHES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK TO DEAL WITH RACISM AND MIGRATION IN THE PUBLIC SPACE TODAY
CRITICAL LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL STUDIES APPROACHES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK TO DEAL WITH RACISM AND MIGRATION IN THE PUBLIC SPACE TODAY

Summary/Abstract: Historical surveys of the phenomenon of migration are useful for a better understanding for what is going on in the world today. However, the present article focuses on the critical language and cultural studies approaches to the development of a framework to deal with racism and migration in the public space today. Critical Discourse Analysis as an active engagement with discourse in the social space is one of these critical approaches. The current article aims at preparing the ground for the denaturalization of the language about migration as it appears in a number of British tabloids. The focus is on aspects of racism in western countries, where there is a large majority of white people and on issues related to patterns of access to the public and issues of inequality, racism and discrimination in the public space. The reproduction and promotion of racism by certain areas of the media is not a simple and straightforward process. To what extent is the role of the media in the reproduction of racism to be separated from the general properties of racism and white dominance in society, including the structural and ideological organization of that form of group power?

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