2018/06/20 by James Barry, İhsan Yılmaz · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Migration, Refugees, and Integration #Diaspora, migration, transnational identity #Sex work and related issues #Liminality #Framing (construction) #Newspaper #Gender studies #Sociology #Immigration #Political science #Media studies #Criminology #Law #History #Anthropology
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/01419870.2018.1484504
openalex publication_date 2018/06/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
This article is a historical empirical study of the Albanian Muslim migrant community of Shepparton. Through analysing newspaper reports, the authors discuss how these migrants were portrayed as liminal between their first arrival and acceptance as Australians a generation later. This is characteristic of a practice which the authors term “migrant hazing”, where a migrant group is demonized as a threat to the society during the liminal phase. Migrant hazing occurs in public discourse, particularly the media, and ceases with the replacement of the group by newer migrants, who are subjected to the same process. Furthermore, migrant hazing remains present in contemporary depictions of Australian Muslims. In this longitudinal study, media reports on Albanian Muslims revolved around three persistent themes: their supposed criminality, the wrongful use of land and the threat of dual-loyalty. These three items constituted the main weapons of the media in hazing the first, liminal generation.