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Art as a Channel and Embodiment of Symbolic Interaction Between Migrants and Non‐Migrants

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Many non‐migrant politicians, journalists, and scholars in migrant‐ destination societies often represent migrants with self‐interested objectives and in specific instrumental ways based on stereotypes. Yet research on symbolic interaction reveals migrants are not passive victims.
Jacob Thomas
wiley   +1 more source

A Just and Sustainable Solution to the Boat People Predicament in Australia? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Since the year 2000, there have been close to two thousand deaths of asylum seekers at sea as a result of foiled attempts to travel to Australia in order to seek protection under the United Nations Convention and Protocol on the Status of Refugees.[1 ...
Donegan, Laura Rose W
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Symposium on Erving Goffman and the Cold War, by Gary D. Jaworski

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
The symposium on Gary D. Jaworski's book Erving Goffman and the Cold War is based on an "Author meets Critics" event held at the European SSSI 2024 Conference in Pisa. After a brief introduction by Dirk vom Lehn, Gary Jaworski briefly suggests his motivation for writing the book.
Chiara Bassetti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Australian Media and Islamophobia: Representations of Asylum Seeker Children

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Australian media invests considerable attention in asylum seekers and their children, especially those arriving by boat. In this paper, we provide an analysis of Australian newsprint media published during the term of Australia’s Gillard’s ...
Tejaswini Vishwanath Patil   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Lace up Your Boots and Do Something:” A Symbolic‐Interactionist Analysis of Girls and Young Women Equestrian Athletes' Resilience

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This analysis illuminates how girls and young women dedicated to horse sports craft a resilient identity that they take to their wider lives. The constitutive features of their horse person identity are their willingness to love, care, and learn about horses combined with their embodied close relationships with specific horses.
Laura Sanchez
wiley   +1 more source

Heroes, Victims, and Resisters: Agentic Vulnerability and Techniques of Identity Talk in Digitalized Job Centers

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article explores vulnerable clients' techniques of identity talk, drawing on interviews with clients in Danish job centers. We combine the theoretical perspective of symbolic interactionism with the sociology of nothing to explore techniques of disidentification from the nonworker identity.
Alexandrina Schmidt, Susie Scott
wiley   +1 more source

Boat arrivals and boat ‘turnbacks’ in Australia since 1976: a quick guide to the statistics [PDF]

open access: yes
Overview This quick guide provides statistics on the number of asylum seeker boats that have arrived in Australia since 1976 when the first wave of boats carrying people seeking asylum from the aftermath of the Vietnam War began to arrive.
Janet Phillips
core  

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