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Museums, the media and refugees : stories of crisis, control and compassion /

Across countries and time, asylum-seekers and refugees have been represented in a variety of ways. In some representations they appear negatively, as dangers threatening to 'over-run' a country or region with 'floods' of incompatible strangers. In others, the same people are port...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Goodnow, Katherine J. (Autor), Lohman, Jack (Autor), Marfleet, Philip, 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • How do we sing our song in a strange land? Belonging: voices of London's refugees in the Museum of London
  • Forgotten by history: refugees, historians and museums in Britain
  • Traditional methods and new moves: migrant and refugee exhibitions in Australia and New Zealand
  • Framing refugees: contexts and narratives in other media
  • Introduction and overview
  • Conceptual proposals and analytic steps
  • Specifying contexts: significant features
  • The Tampa and initial framing
  • Hardening and sustaining a frame
  • One representation unravelled, another sustained
  • Dissent: challenges focused on truth and law
  • Point of change: from concerns for individuals to concerns for groups
  • Change: From individuals to groups to policies
  • Extensions: other countries, continuing questions.