@article{2993107,
    title = "Liquid racism in the Greek anti-racist campaign #StopMindBorders",
    author = "Tsakona, V. and Karachaliou, R. and Archakis, A.",
    journal = "JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AGGRESSION AND CONFLICT",
    year = "2020",
    volume = "8",
    number = "2",
    pages = "232-261",
    publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
    issn = "2213-1272, E-ISSN: 2213-1280",
    doi = "10.1075/jlac.00036.tsa",
    abstract = "This study examines the opaque reproduction of racism in an online, anti-racist campaign officially aiming to denounce hate speech and challenge widespread stereotypes concerning migrants. In particular, we investigate the video clips of the #StopMindBorders campaign launched by the Greek branch of the International Organization for Migration. We specifically concentrate on the liquid racism attested in these video clips, namely a highly ambivalent form of racism encouraged in the mass media and usually hard to detect, as it involves multiple interpretations, some of which may not be assessed as racist (Weaver 2016). The multimodal critical analysis of the representation of migrants reveals that these video clips tacitly promote migrants' linguocultural assimilation as a prerequisite for their acceptance in the host country. In this sense, although the anti-racist campaign under scrutiny attempts to refute discourses of aggression and mainstream stereotypes against migrants, it ends up naturalizing hate speech and reproducing assimilative and monoculturalist ideologies. © John Benjamins Publishing Company"
}