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Dealing with the undesirable: The contestation of the Danish state’s deterrence policy towards refugees amongst civil society in Denmark
No full textThis thesis addresses the Danish national responses to the increased influx of displaced people in the eye of the contemporary global refugee crisis. On one hand, it examines the refugee policy implemented by the Danish government with focus on deterrence measures. On the other side of the equation it addresses the contestation of this political line amongst different civil society actors. Deterrence measures have been absolute central in the way the Danish state has sought to manage the challenge of an increased number of asylum-seekers. The government recently enacted a new Asylum Deal, which entails 34 restrictions and aim at stemming the influx of refugees. Secondly, it published an information campaign in Lebanese newspapers in order to warn to-be refugees about the restrictions and thereby deter them from coming to Denmark. Contrary to the restrictive policies pursued at state level, civil society actors have emerged in support of refugees throughout Denmark engaging in various strategies ranging from discursive disputes to civil disobedience. By taking point of departure in three different cases this study explores how civil society actors contest the deterrence policy of the state towards refugees by examining the different components and dynamics, which conform the people involved; their motivations, visions and more importantly how they challenge the situation affecting them. Hereby, it becomes possible to explore the contestation of the dominating political discourse and direction when it comes to refugees. The three cases at focus include what I have termed ‘The Propaganda War over Refugees’, which covers the intense public debate that emerged as a response to the government’s proclamation of running ads in Lebanese newspapers. Moreover, it deals with the phenomenon of the ‘civil human smuggler’, which concerns the trend of ordinary citizens transporting asylum-seekers across the Danish borders. Finally, it includes the network ‘Welcome to Denmark’ functioning as a platform for numerous subgroups involved in different activities related to refugee advocacy. Building upon a theoretical framework involving the management of displaced people, civil society and political activism on social media and using case study as the research method this paper asks why these selected civil society groups contest the Danish state’s policies of refugee deterrence and which strategies they use. The empirical data used to examine the counteractions carried out by the civil society actors is made up by a diverse collection and includes communication and interactions in diverse Facebook groups, which provide the main forum for planning and coordinating their steps. Moreover, it contains secondary interviews with spokespersons to the different initiatives, press releases about the activities carried out as well as different articles concerning the struggle of the activists for a more humane asylum policy. It also involves observations from different demonstrations as well as public meetings. The main findings suggest that the contestation of the government’s deterrence policy is more than a humanitarian concern to help refugees but is multidimensional and evolves around complex struggles over identity, morality and politics. By exploring these struggles in detail, this thesis seeks to contribute both to the literature about civil society and to the current debate on refugees.<br/
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
New Citizen in Denmark
No full textThis project revolves around the conceptions and discourses of integration, and assimilation in the Danish welfare system, and the issues and problems associated with these theories. This is investigated through immigration in a historical background, followed by a theoretical part explaining different assimilation theories including the civic assimilation model, and the theories of identity and hybridity. The integration booklet “Citizen in Denmark” is used as a case study along with life stories from the book “Vejen til Vollsmose.” The project concludes that political discourses have potential to suppress immigrants‟ cultures through guiding them to abandon their own cultural identity in order to achieve full integration. These elements are contextualized and substantiated through the analysis of the booklet.This project revolves around the conceptions and discourses of integration, and assimilation in the Danish welfare system, and the issues and problems associated with these theories. This is investigated through immigration in a historical background, followed by a theoretical part explaining different assimilation theories including the civic assimilation model, and the theories of identity and hybridity. The integration booklet “Citizen in Denmark” is used as a case study along with life stories from the book “Vejen til Vollsmose.” The project concludes that political discourses have potential to suppress immigrants‟ cultures through guiding them to abandon their own cultural identity in order to achieve full integration. These elements are contextualized and substantiated through the analysis of the booklet
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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