| Title: |
Media and Government Framing of Asylum Seekers and Migrant Workers in Canada during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| Language: |
English |
| Authors: |
Stack, Michelle; Wilbur, Amea |
| Source: |
International Review of Education. Dec 2021 67(6):895-914. |
| Availability: |
Springer. Available from: Springer Nature. One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, NY 10004. Tel: 800-777-4643; Tel: 212-460-1500; Fax: 212-460-1700; e-mail: customerservice@springernature.com; Web site: https://link.springer.com/ |
| Peer Reviewed: |
Y |
| Page Count: |
20 |
| Publication Date: |
2021 |
| Document Type: |
Journal Articles; Reports - Research |
| Education Level: |
Adult Education |
| Descriptors: |
Foreign Countries; Migrant Workers; Refugees; Mass Media Role; COVID-19; Pandemics; Human Dignity; Adult Education; Lifelong Learning; Government Role |
| Geographic Terms: |
Canada |
| DOI: |
10.1007/s11159-021-09932-8 |
| ISSN: |
0020-8566 |
| Abstract: |
One understudied area of adult education and lifelong learning is the role of media as educator and policy player. This article describes how the authors used "critical discourse analysis" to examine how asylum seekers, migrant workers and their advocates have challenged long-standing discursive framings of them as benefactors of Canadian generosity, criminals, burdens or victims -- during the first ten months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis points to the difficulties of navigating media engagement to advocate for individuals facing deportation from Canada, while also attempting to challenge the dichotomy of people seen either as worthy of dignity (those who work for low pay and in dangerous conditions to care for Canadians) or as unworthy (those who work on farms or who are not able to work). However, it also reveals the potential for critical lifelong media education to inform the work of adult educators across classroom, labour and social movement contexts to disrupt exclusionary and oppressive media and government narratives. |
| Abstractor: |
As Provided |
| Entry Date: |
2022 |
| Accession Number: |
EJ1327505 |
| Database: |
ERIC |