The effects of political framing: who is a “refugee?”
Journal: CU Scholar (University of Colorado Boulder)
Year: 2016

This thesis is examining the question: what causes changes in the definition of the concept of ârefugeeâ over time? The refugee is often considered a humanitarian concept that creates an exception to traditional, security-oriented forms of managing irregular migration. However, by analyzing the evolving definition of the refugee, this discourse analysis shows how it is a political concept in that it has no single, universally accepted definition and therefore, it can be politically manipulat