An Analysis of British Media’s Framing of Immigration During Brexit Campaign’s Final Days
Creator:
Cunningham, Michael
Date of publication:
2021
Abstract Tesim:
Did conservative media frame immigration during the run-up to the Brexit Referendum differently
than liberal media? Through the coding of articles in both The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph,
we will determine that these publications framed immigration in terms of national security rather
than human rights or economic integration issues during the final few days of the Brexit campaign
in 2016. Additionally, this framing was due to two newsworthy events that formed the narrative
during these waning days: a great debate and a controversial advertisement which not only
dominated the headlines but also caused the campaigns to act and react around a security narrative.
Resource type:
Article
Affiliation Label Tesim:
Center for European Studies
Type:
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17615/m9yq-9578
Journal Issue:
1
Journal Title:
North Carolina Journal of European Studies
Journal Volume:
2
Keyword:
Framing, Media Analysis, Immigration, Brexit, and United Kingdom
Beginning content for journal issue including: General information about the journal; Director's Note from John D. Stephens, Director of the Center for European Studies; list of members of the Editorial Team and Advisory Board; Managing Editor and author biographies; Table of Contents
Beginning content for journal issue including: General information about the journal; Director's Note from John D. Stephens, Director of the Center for European Studies and Kathleen Shanahan Linder, Executive Director of the Center for European Studies; list of members of the Editorial Team and Advisory Board; Executive Editor biographies; Table of Contents
Avenue De L’Observatoire: Organization in a Foggy Paris
Creator:
Wilder, Laura
Date of publication:
2020
Abstract Tesim:
Late one Winter night, a Parisian drives along the Avenue de L’Observatoire. They are forced to continue down the avenue slowly because even their headlights are not powerful enough to reveal a clear path through the fog. Neither the street lamps or the trees can pierce this fog as it adds a film to every rough edge it touches, dulling each and every end point of objects within its reach. In Brassaï’s 1934 gelatin silver print entitled Avenue De L’Observatoire, Brassaï captures this moment in time. By utilizing the infamous Parisian fog, Brassaï created a work of art that both plays with the viewer’s eye and emphasizes the idealization of lines, segmentation, and organization put in place by Georges-Eugène Haussmann during an era of destruction and modernization. Brassaï reveals the relationship between the green space’s sturdy Haussmannian elements and the fog, all the while encouraging the viewer to question traditional assumptions about Paris.
Multilevel Governance in Eastern Europe After the Fall of the USSR: How Russian and Ukrainian Post-Soviet Governmental Institutions Affect Crimea
Creator:
von Tesckow Morley, LoLo
Date of publication:
2020
Abstract Tesim:
Regional authority is not always uniformly applied to all territories. How federal governments treat special regions differentiates from how they treat other sub-entities within their jurisdiction. One of the most interesting examples of a special region is Crimea because its story is not connected to just one country, but rather two: Russia and Ukraine. This paper will feature a two-pronged analysis of Crimea and its relationships with the aforementioned countries: first, it will examine late-USSR and post-Soviet history as an explanation for Crimean dependence on its surrounding nations, and secondly, it will analyze governmental institutions in Russia and Ukraine to determine how Crimea fits into each system. This paper will use these findings to elucidate plausible reasons for Crimea’s bid for autonomy, and, subsequently, Russia’s successful annexation of the region.
Resource type:
Article
Affiliation Label Tesim:
Department of Political Science
Type:
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17615/74px-td37
Journal Issue:
1
Journal Title:
North Carolina Journal of European Studies
Journal Volume:
1
Keyword:
Russia, regionalism, Ukraine, multi-level governance, and territorial conflict
How Conceptions of Exceptionalism and Tokenism Present Themselves in the Refugee Crisis and Welcome to Germany (2016)
Creator:
Lofton, Cameron
Date of publication:
2020
Abstract Tesim:
Since around 2015, Germany and other European countries have experienced a large increase in the number of refugees entering their countries. As a result, there has been much pushback from native Germans against this new foreign presence; recent terrorist attacks carried out by radical Islamists throughout Europe have only made Europeans more skeptical of allowing refugees in their countries. Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has been especially criticized for her open-door policy. Last year, she and Interior Minister Horst Seehofer have clashed heavily on the issue of migration and refugees, threatening the already fragile government coalition. However, more recently, Germany has decreased the number of refugees accepted while increasing deportations to other EU countries. While the number of refugees is showing no signs of decreasing to pre-2015 numbers in the near future, Germany and other European countries are coming to terms with the fact that they must not only offer refuge but also successfully accommodate these refugees. Current discussions of the refugee crisis frame it as a new phenomenon, but these discussions ignore other influxes of refugees in Germany’s past. It would be beneficial for German politicians to also reference what they have done in the past when they are looking at how they should approach this “crisis”. The issue of integration and assimilation has been a salient topic in recent discussions surrounding refugees. On one hand, many Germans expect the newly arrived refugees to fully assimilate to their customs, but many refugees are not willing to completely forfeit their own culture for Germany’s. In contrast to earlier times of refugee migration, these refugees are coming from places whose cultures are viewed as antithetical to German and European culture. In this essay, I will investigate how German society approaches the question of assimilation/integration through an analysis of the mainstream media representation of refugees in Welcome to Germany. I will show how the unidimensional and shallow character of the refugee in this film is indicative of a German society that is unwilling to accept refugees as fully human with complexities and faults. Welcome to Germany is a popular German film centering around a family’s decision to adopt a Nigerian refugee named Diallo that promotes a narrative that is counteractive to progressive work surrounding the political and social treatment of refugees in the country. I will analyze how Diallo’s role in the movie and his relation to the Hartmanns, the family that takes him in, contribute to a more close-minded view of refugees. I will also put this into the context of the film’s relative success in Germany and how the movie was received by the public.
Resource type:
Article
Affiliation Label Tesim:
Center for European Studies
Type:
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17615/5427-8p39
Journal Issue:
1
Journal Title:
North Carolina Journal of European Studies
Journal Volume:
1
Keyword:
refugee, cultural diversity, immigration, and Germany
Surrounded by the Tuileries gardens, the Champs Élysées, and the Seine River, the Place de la Concorde has maintained its status as one of Paris’s major public squares since its construction in the late eighteenth century. It is marked by a tumultuous history, first serving as a monument to the then ruling Louis XV and subsequently transforming into a site of mass guillotine executions during the French Revolution. As a public space, the Place de la Concorde has witnessed dynamic shifts in Parisian society throughout the past two centuries and has been the subject of numerous artists. French painter Jean Béraud, renowned for depicting the life of Paris during the Belle Époque, portrays a woman in the square at the end of the nineteenth century in his 1885 work titled Parisian on the Place de la Concorde (Figure 1). Seven decades later, Russian-French artist and early modernist Marc Chagall portrayed a man, woman, and child overlooking the square in his vibrant color lithograph Place de la Concorde (Figure 2). Béraud’s painting, oscillating between impressionist and Salon-style techniques, offers a glimpse of the emerging dominance Parisian women began to enjoy in public spaces during the Belle Époque. Chagall’s lithograph, distinct in its vivid coloring and expressive sketching, presents individuals living in a post-war Paris, categorized by reconstruction and an influx of migrants. Thus, Béraud’s and Chagall’s diverse depictions of the Place de la Concorde and its frequenters implicate the viewer in Paris’s evolution as a city that underwent “an unparalleled period of contentment and pleasures” during the 1880s, followed by a post-war period of modernization seventy years later.
Resource type:
Article
Affiliation Label Tesim:
Center for European Studies
Type:
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17615/vcjt-qz32
Journal Issue:
1
Journal Title:
North Carolina Journal of European Studies
Journal Volume:
1
Keyword:
Art History, Marc Chagall, Jean Beraud, Urbanism, and France
Multiculturalism Defi(n)ed? Media Bias and Immigrant Party Formation in The Netherlands
Creator:
Elliott, Thomas
Date of publication:
2020
Abstract Tesim:
The project of integrating newly-arrived immigrant groups into a host society is a multi-faceted one that takes place in both time and space. Immigrants groups and their descendants interface, among other things, with a country’s economy, education system, citizenship laws, housing, and health care. This paper focuses on the foundation of the political party Denk, and what the arrival of this immigrant-focused party might mean for the success or failure of the political integration of Turkish and Moroccan immigrants, and descendants of immigrants, in The Netherlands.
Resource type:
Article
Affiliation Label Tesim:
Center for European Studies
Type:
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17615/99y2-kp75
Journal Issue:
1
Journal Title:
North Carolina Journal of European Studies
Journal Volume:
1
Keyword:
Netherlands, immigration, political parties, and media