ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the media's regulatory production of accounts of local protests against the deportation of students categorised as asylum seekers, international students, and their children. It also focuses on the existing analysis that of mediated 'pro-immigrant' discourse in the aftermath of a 2004 citizenship referendum. The chapter explains the mediated, racist and anti-racist reproduction that of educational subjects of the nation. The various anti-deportation protests emergent in the 2005-2007 period could be easily characterised as reflecting national guilt about the consequences of the referendum. The chapter also discusses, some 'anti-deportation' stances are quite problematic, in terms of their focus on individual migrants and their acceptance of wider deportation regimes. It also explores how official media practices legitimise racially inflected categories of governable immigrant, through their presentation of educational endeavours as the pursuits of individual, good students. The categories of international student and asylum seeker are juxtaposed below, as both are central to my analysis of mediated anti-deportation politics.
