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Download fileThe Syrian Refugee Crisis in Canadian Media
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posted on 2021-05-24, 20:48 authored by Vappu Tyyskä, Jenna Blower, Samantha DeBoer, Shunya Kawai, Ashley WalcottThis paper offers a critical analysis of Canadian media content (The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, National Post, Huffington Post, CBC, and CTV), from September 2015 to April 2016, of the coverage of the Canadian resettlement effort of Syrian refugees, including representation of the refugees and the Canadian government and public. The analysis is informed by theories of orientalism, neocolonialism, neoliberalism, and feminism.
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Human rights in mass media.Human rights -- Press coverage.Canada -- Foreign relations -- Syria.Syria -- Foreign relations -- Canada.Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011-Syria -- Politics and government -- 2000-Emigration and immigration -- History -- 21st century.Population geography -- History -- 21st century.Refugees -- History -- 21st century.
