Digital Media and Refugeehood in Contemporary Australia: Resistance and Counter-Discourses from Detention

by Arianna Grasso

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This book focuses on the resistance practices digitally enacted by a group of refugees in the context of the Australian detention policy. Drawing on critical-, multimodal- and ethnographic-discursive analytical research, the author brings to the fore the digitally mediated lived experiences of detained refugees as articulated from Australia-run offshore and onshore detention facilities. The book unveils how refugees’ self-representation and counter-discursive practices on social media aim to dismantle the dehumanizing, exclusionary, and obliterating anti-refugee rhetoric that pervades political and media landscapes in contemporary Australia. It will be of interest to academics and students in fields including Digital Migration Studies, Refugee Studies, Digital Media Studies, Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Studies, including Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies, and Discourse Ethnography.
  • ISBN13 9783031246241
  • Publish Date 14 March 2023
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CH
  • Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
  • Edition 1st ed. 2023
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 170
  • Language English