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- Title
Citizenship Revocation in the Mainstream Press: A case of Re-ethnicization?
- Authors
WINTER, ELKE; PREVISIC, IVANA
- Abstract
Under the original version of the Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act (2014), dual citizens having committed high treason, terrorism or espionage could lose their Canadian citizenship. In this paper, we examine how the measure was discussed in Canada's mainstream newspapers. We ask: who/what is seen as the target of citizenship revocation? What does this tell us about the direction that Canadian citizenship is moving towards? Our findings show that Canadian newspapers were more often critical than supportive of the citizenship revocation provision. However, the press ignored the involvement of non-Muslim, white, Western-origin Canadians in terrorist acts and interpreted the measure as one that was mostly affecting Canadian Muslims. Thus, despite advocating for equal citizenship in principle, in their writing and reporting practice, Canadian newspapers constructed Canadian Muslims as suspicious and less Canadian nonetheless.
- Subjects
CANADA; CITIZENSHIP; ISLAMOPHOBIA; MUSLIMS; PRESS; REVOCATION
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2017, Vol 42, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article