Terrorists or cowards: negative portrayals of male Syrian refugees in social media
Open Access
- 18 October 2015
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Feminist Media Studies
- Vol. 16 (1), 178-181
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2016.1120493
Abstract
This paper examines images and words shared on the Twitter hashtag #refugeesNOTwelcome to understand the portrayal of male Syrian refugees in a post-9/11 context where the Middle-Eastern male is often primarily cast as a potential terrorist. Queer theorist Jasbir Puar (2007) and Middle- East scholar Paul Amar (2011) provide us with a theoretical approach to make sense of the contradictions we see emerging in this social media contextKeywords
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