How media and conflicts make migrants /

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Based on interviews and workshops with refugees in both countries, the book develops the concept of ""migrantification""--In which people are made into migrants by the state, the media and members of society

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Forkert, Kirsten (Author), Oliveri, Federico (Author), Bhattacharyya, Gargi, 1964- (Author), Graham, Janna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration.
Refugees.
Social conflict.
Mass media and world politics.
Emigration and Immigration
Refugees
Émigration et immigration.
Réfugiés.
Médias et politique mondiale.
refugees.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration
Mass media and world politics
Social conflict
asylum.
colonialism.
conflict.
media.
memory.
migration.
news.
racism.
war.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: conflict, media and displacement in the twenty-first century
  • How postcolonial innocence and white amnesia shape our understanding of global conflicts
  • Interlude 1: Global power and media absences
  • War narratives: making sense of conflict
  • Interlude 2: Songs, jokes, movies and other diversions
  • Social media, mutual aid and solidarity movements as a response to institutional breakdown
  • Interlude 3: How it feels to be made a migrant: restrictions, frustration and longing
  • The processes of migrantification: how displaced people are made into 'migrants'
  • Interlude 4: Telling stories about war differently
  • Refusing the demand for sad stories
  • Conclusion: unsettling dominant narratives about migration in a time of flux
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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