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'Reject Rohingya and send them back!’: digital discourses of nationalism and xenophobia in the time of pandemic

The difficulties brought by the implementation of the cordon sanitaire to contain the spread of COVID-19, paired with longstanding local grievances, have led to an explosion of xenophobic sentiments towards refugees in Malaysia. The prospect of more refugee boats arriving after hundreds were turned...

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Main Author: Mohamad Jamil, Siti Nurnadilla
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Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2023
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H Social Sciences (General)
P Philology. Linguistics
P87 Communication. Mass media
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spelling my.iium.irep.1083212024-03-06T09:25:15Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/108321/ 'Reject Rohingya and send them back!’: digital discourses of nationalism and xenophobia in the time of pandemic Mohamad Jamil, Siti Nurnadilla H Social Sciences (General) P Philology. Linguistics P87 Communication. Mass media The difficulties brought by the implementation of the cordon sanitaire to contain the spread of COVID-19, paired with longstanding local grievances, have led to an explosion of xenophobic sentiments towards refugees in Malaysia. The prospect of more refugee boats arriving after hundreds were turned away only worsened the situation. This chapter delves into the complex role played by fear and digital affordances as arenas for public debate during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, this chapter focuses on linguistic manifestations of othering in the civil discourse against the Rohingya refugees, which seem to fall neatly into a Us versus Them framework of nationalism. By means of a discourse-historical approach, it examines comments on the online petitions against the Rohingya refugees in Malaysia on change.org in 2020. This chapter argues that the fight against xenophobia, in any shape or form, must first involve the understanding of how the necessary narratives of belongingness and solidarity of Malaysians turned into hate and hostility against Rohingya refugees. Routledge 2023-01-01 Book Chapter PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/108321/19/108321_%27Reject%20Rohingya%20and%20send%20them%20back%21%E2%80%99edited.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/108321/20/108321_%27Reject%20Rohingya%20and%20send%20them%20back%21%E2%80%99edited_SCOPUS.pdf Mohamad Jamil, Siti Nurnadilla (2023) 'Reject Rohingya and send them back!’: digital discourses of nationalism and xenophobia in the time of pandemic. In: Discourse in the Digital Age: Social Media, Power and Society. Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse . Routledge, New York, pp. 118-142. ISBN 9781032292724 https://books.google.com.my/books?hl=en&lr=&id=YcnhEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT85&dq=%27Reject+Rohingya+and+Send+Them+Back!%E2%80%99:+Digital+Discourses+of+Nationalism+and+Xenophobia+in+the+time+of+Pandemic&ots=BTAvCRXS2n&sig=AXsEz03aY_w7LslC9-dwUHP29Ss&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q='Reject%20Rohingya%20and%20Send%20Them%20Back!%E2%80%99%3A%20Digital%20Discourses%20of%20Nationalism%20and%20Xenophobia%20in%20the%20time%20of%20Pandemic&f=false
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Mohamad Jamil, Siti Nurnadilla
'Reject Rohingya and send them back!’: digital discourses of nationalism and xenophobia in the time of pandemic
description The difficulties brought by the implementation of the cordon sanitaire to contain the spread of COVID-19, paired with longstanding local grievances, have led to an explosion of xenophobic sentiments towards refugees in Malaysia. The prospect of more refugee boats arriving after hundreds were turned away only worsened the situation. This chapter delves into the complex role played by fear and digital affordances as arenas for public debate during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, this chapter focuses on linguistic manifestations of othering in the civil discourse against the Rohingya refugees, which seem to fall neatly into a Us versus Them framework of nationalism. By means of a discourse-historical approach, it examines comments on the online petitions against the Rohingya refugees in Malaysia on change.org in 2020. This chapter argues that the fight against xenophobia, in any shape or form, must first involve the understanding of how the necessary narratives of belongingness and solidarity of Malaysians turned into hate and hostility against Rohingya refugees.
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title 'Reject Rohingya and send them back!’: digital discourses of nationalism and xenophobia in the time of pandemic
title_short 'Reject Rohingya and send them back!’: digital discourses of nationalism and xenophobia in the time of pandemic
title_full 'Reject Rohingya and send them back!’: digital discourses of nationalism and xenophobia in the time of pandemic
title_fullStr 'Reject Rohingya and send them back!’: digital discourses of nationalism and xenophobia in the time of pandemic
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url http://irep.iium.edu.my/108321/19/108321_%27Reject%20Rohingya%20and%20send%20them%20back%21%E2%80%99edited.pdf
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