Post Modern Rationale Pemberton Quandary
STUDENT DETAILS
Student ID: 193939
Name: Ingrid Else van der Horst
Course: BASSIX
ASSESSMENT DETAILS
Unit/Module: Social Analysis
Educator: Claire Pemberton
Assessment Name: Case Study
Assessment Number: Two
Term & Year: Second semester/ 2013
Word Count: 1981
DECLARATION
I declare that this assessment is my own work, based on my own personal research/study . I also declare that this assessment, nor parts of it, has not been previously submitted for any other unit/module or course, and that I have not copied in part or whole or otherwise plagiarised the work of another student and/or persons. I have read the ACAP Student Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct Policy and understand its implications. …show more content…
(Bauman, 1993, p. 245). Post-modernism embraces an increase of the use of language, this being best recognised in the use of the media, by ready access to television broadcasts and newspapers. Society became more industrialised, resulting in an affluent society with access to education. This resulted in post-modern society becoming more sensitive to the needs of others, by accepting cultural diversity, and becoming less rigid due to the exposure to media reports in newspapers as well as television reports, and access via the internet, allowing for instant information, to compare and examine for accuracy. Therefore the receptiveness towards Vietnamese asylum seekers was greatly influenced by a photo displayed in the media of a young girl running naked in the country side in Vietnam after having been burned by napalm (USA Today) (La monde). This having a tremendous impact on the collective conscience of the Australian population, and the media exposure whilst horrific was to have a positive effect, insofar that Vietnamese boat people were seen to be in urgent need, therefore accepted as asylum seekers, on humanitarian …show more content…
Asylum seekers now portrayed as ‘queue jumpers’ trying to get through the back door, whilst the reality is that the majority of illegal’s enter via our airports and overstay their visas and do not arrive by boats but planes. (Brennan 2002, p. 36). (Crock et al 2006, p. 41).
The ensuing apprehension, which followed the asylum seekers arriving from Middle Eastern countries, were perceived to be as high security risk due to their religiosity, having fled the very regimes that Australia is fighting against in ‘the war on terror’, the perpetuation of this culture of fear, reducing the empathy for asylum seekers, as instigated by the actions of the Australian government, in their media campaigns (Sidhu & Christie, 2007).
As Muller duly notes “the discourse has shifted, from one of humanitarianism, where questions of hospitality or cruelty may have entered in, or more identity based distinctions between the unknown alien and the familiar citizen; refugee politics has been drawn into a discourse of security and threat” (2004, p. 51).
Student ID: 193939
Name: Ingrid Else van der Horst
Course: BASSIX
ASSESSMENT DETAILS
Unit/Module: Social Analysis
Educator: Claire Pemberton
Assessment Name: Case Study
Assessment Number: Two
Term & Year: Second semester/ 2013
Word Count: 1981
DECLARATION
I declare that this assessment is my own work, based on my own personal research/study . I also declare that this assessment, nor parts of it, has not been previously submitted for any other unit/module or course, and that I have not copied in part or whole or otherwise plagiarised the work of another student and/or persons. I have read the ACAP Student Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct Policy and understand its implications. …show more content…
(Bauman, 1993, p. 245). Post-modernism embraces an increase of the use of language, this being best recognised in the use of the media, by ready access to television broadcasts and newspapers. Society became more industrialised, resulting in an affluent society with access to education. This resulted in post-modern society becoming more sensitive to the needs of others, by accepting cultural diversity, and becoming less rigid due to the exposure to media reports in newspapers as well as television reports, and access via the internet, allowing for instant information, to compare and examine for accuracy. Therefore the receptiveness towards Vietnamese asylum seekers was greatly influenced by a photo displayed in the media of a young girl running naked in the country side in Vietnam after having been burned by napalm (USA Today) (La monde). This having a tremendous impact on the collective conscience of the Australian population, and the media exposure whilst horrific was to have a positive effect, insofar that Vietnamese boat people were seen to be in urgent need, therefore accepted as asylum seekers, on humanitarian …show more content…
Asylum seekers now portrayed as ‘queue jumpers’ trying to get through the back door, whilst the reality is that the majority of illegal’s enter via our airports and overstay their visas and do not arrive by boats but planes. (Brennan 2002, p. 36). (Crock et al 2006, p. 41).
The ensuing apprehension, which followed the asylum seekers arriving from Middle Eastern countries, were perceived to be as high security risk due to their religiosity, having fled the very regimes that Australia is fighting against in ‘the war on terror’, the perpetuation of this culture of fear, reducing the empathy for asylum seekers, as instigated by the actions of the Australian government, in their media campaigns (Sidhu & Christie, 2007).
As Muller duly notes “the discourse has shifted, from one of humanitarianism, where questions of hospitality or cruelty may have entered in, or more identity based distinctions between the unknown alien and the familiar citizen; refugee politics has been drawn into a discourse of security and threat” (2004, p. 51).