| Title | Who’s to Blame for Asylum ‘Moral Panics’? Asylum Seekers’ Perspectives on UK Policymaking, News Reporting, and Preferences of Identity Construction |
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| Contributor | Amadu Khan (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-13-11 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Publisher | Helsinki University Press |
| Published on | 2021-12-13 |
| Long abstract | This chapter critically reviews policies and news reporting in the United Kingdom claiming that they create, circulate and sustain a labelling of asylum seekers as folk devils. Drawing on interviews with asylum seekers on their preferred forms of representation, the author argues that, while the news media is mainly blamed for moral panics and representations of asylum seekers as folk devils, policymaking is equally complicit in the current demonization of asylum seekers in the UK. |
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Amadu Wurie Khan is an independent scholar and consultant in the fields of forced migration, citizenship, international development, and media, culture and arts. He received his doctorate degree from the School of Social and Political Sciences in The University of Edinburgh where he researched the relationship between refugees' citizenship formations and the UK news media. He is currently the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. As an international development consultant, Amadu provides strategic guidance on citizenship, human rights, equality, and environmental and social justice to governments, civil society, international development organisations and grassroots communities.