CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Sablina, Liliia |
|---|---|
| Title | ???We Should Stop The Islamisation Of Europe!???: Studying Anti-Immigrant Attitudes Among Russian-Speaking Internet Users In Germany |
| Summary | Starting from 2015, some of the Russian-speaking residents in Germany have expressed their anti-refugee attitudes in the form of rallies and rising voting support for the right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Due to the absence of social cues, unlimited space, immediate responses and minimal censorship, online platforms for communication have reflected the offline mobilization and became the major platforms for the spreadability of discriminative rhetoric. The present thesis investigates why Russian-speaking internet users residing in Germany justify anti-refugee discourse and how they construct the notion of the “others.” Based on the netnographic analysis of the chosen online discussions and conducted interviews with its members, the present work argues that with the appearance of the new “others,” Russian-speaking migrants have redefined their symbolic boundaries in order to draw the line between the new coming “stinky migrants” and themselves – people with migrant background. In many ways, participants of the analyzed discussions employed the politicized civilizational rhetoric that allowed them to redefine existing categorizations. The present research explores, for the first time, the reasons lying behind the online populist activity of Russian-speaking residents in Germany. |
| Supervisor | Pogonyi Szabolcs |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/sablina_liliia.pdf |
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