"Aggressive Refugees, Violent Hooligans, Concerned Citizens": Reinterpreting Multiple Processes of Difference-Making in Mediatizations of Migration and Conflict in East Germany in the German Media1. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Trzeciak, Miriam Friz; Schäfer, Jana
• Is Part Of: Journal of immigrant & refugee studies. Volume 19:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 55
• Page End: 67
• Publication Date: 2021-01-02
• Subjects: Migration -- ethnosexual frontiers -- spatio-cultural-historical frontiers -- othering -- discourse analysis -- mediatizations -- postsocialist and postcolonial entanglements -- intersectionality -- race -- sexuality; Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Refugees -- United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Social work with immigrants -- United States -- Periodicals; 362.8753097305
• DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2020.1856995
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1556-2948

Abstract

Abstract: While feminist postcolonial literature provides valuable insight into the intersectional effects of race, gender and sexuality, other dimensions of difference-making like region or class often remain invisible. Combining postcolonial and post-socialist perspectives, this paper explores the intersections of multidimensional frontiers in the social production of "otherness". Using a sociology of knowledge approach to discourse, we analyze how current mediatizations of migration and conflict in East German cities link ethnosexual with spatio-cultural-historical frontiers . This interplay of multifaceted frontiers constitutes internal and external images of a cultural "other" and contributes to internal coherence within the sexually and racially imagined nation.