Chapter 6. Migrant voices in ‘antiracist’ video clips in Greece

Abstract

As an attempt to manage cultural and linguistic divergences from the monocultural and monolingual norm, European nation-states, including Greece, tend to enact overt, or more recently, covert forms of racist discourses. In the present study, we analyze three video clips launched as part of antiracist campaigns in Greece against the backdrop of the current refugee ‘crisis’. The critical analysis of the data shows that the migrant voices of the videos are framed as non-elite in relation to the majority, while the non-assimilated migrant voices are also framed as non-elite in relation the assimilated ones. We therefore argue that eliteness is a representational resource for the perpetuation of liquid racism, as it normalizes the privilege of those constructed as elite in contrast to those constructed as non-elite (i.e. majority members vs. migrants, and assimilated migrants vs. non-assimilated migrants).