CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Mergler, Iga |
|---|---|
| Title | White or not White? The Racial Representations of Poles in the British Media After 2004 |
| Summary | This thesis examines how Poles were represented in the British media in the period before and after the 2008 economic crisis and argues that the fact that Poles are white affected the way in which they were portrayed. It analyzes the articles of four papers between 2004 and 2011 to discover that the initial, surprisingly very positive image of the white Pole is substituted by a negative racialized one. It shows how the entanglement of racial and economic discourses in both periods, projected on the Polish migrants in the UK, situates them in the position of an “inbetween group”, one which is neither white nor black. |
| Supervisor | Dafinger, Andreas |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/mergler_iga.pdf |
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