Marianthi kafala biography of albert

IASET US

IASET, 2020

Morocco is located in the extreme NorthWest of Africa, just 14 kilometers away from Spain. Its geographical location has made it a destination for thousands of Sub-Saharan migrants and refugees. Being an Africa state, Morocco is expected to be tolerant to other African immigrants. However, the reality is rather the opposite. Since their arrival in Morocco, Sub-Saharan migrants (SSM) are the subject of fear, mistrust and racism. Public discussions about those immigrants are often infested deprecating and racist tropes; hence, the immigrants are often referred as 'dirty blacks, black locusts, invaders, and HIV carriers'. Yet, instead of covering events which involve Sub-Saharan migrants with a more objective and less racist discourse, Moroccan newspapers have always endorsed a populist, racist, and fear-mongering discourse. An example of such discourse is an article in a local newspaper and whose title could be translated as 'Regiments of [African] prostitutes spread HIV in the streets of Morocco'. This paper seeks to analyze the discourse adopted by Moroccan newspapers in reference to SSM, it demonstrates how these newspapers make use of strategies of representation, syntax, transitivity, lexicon, argumentation, as well as rhetorical choices such as euphemism, metaphors, hyperbole used to create a negative image of African immigrants. The paper adopts and adapts tools from Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to reflect on the characteristics of racist media discourse in Arabic newspapers. Contrary to the racist and discriminatory discourse adopted by right wing parties in Europe which receives a considerable attention. The deadly attacks against immigrants in South Africa, the massive police raids against migrants in Egypt, an

Sara Benceković

This paper should be taken as a semi-fictive and critical effort aimed at making the reader feel the refugee ‘other’ and thus battling systematic violence, inequality and discrimination present in the current ‘refugee crisis.’ The particular refugee whose memoirs are recorded on these pages, Ahmad Waleed Rahimi, is in fact a composite, rather than a real person. Ahmad was born out of numerous interviews with refugees of all sorts of nationalities, genders, classes and ethnicities. The narrative follows the commonest themes and concerns I heard in these open-ended and semi-structured interviews. Indeed, the motifs reproduced in this paper have come up in most if not all the interviews. I decided not to use the narrative of a single person for two reasons. First, I wanted to be sure of protecting any one refugee’s identity and security. In the present circumstances, even a record of a refugee passing through a specific place at a specific time could potentially result in push-backs and deportation – no academic would want to be liable for endangering any refugee’s journey and safety. Secondly, my goal was to provoke rather than represent, describe rather than analyse. Thus, I aimed at achieving the great depth of the refugee experience, which can more easily be achieved through multiple voices condensed into one than through the lone voice of a single refugee. I understood and accepted the problematics of such an approach, which reduces the multiplicity of contradictory experiences to a single experience. However, while I would not necessarily take this approach in researching other social groups, I found it strikingly beneficial and constructive in representing the reality of a refugee’s life along