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How media and conflicts make migrants / / Kirsten Forkert [and three others]



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Autore: Forkert Kirsten Visualizza persona
Titolo: How media and conflicts make migrants / / Kirsten Forkert [and three others] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 230 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 302.2308691
Soggetto topico: Immigrants in mass media
Soggetto non controllato: asylum
colonialism
conflict
media
memory
migration
news
racism
refugees
war
Note generali: Cover title has refguees and asylum seekers struckthrough.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-227) and index.
Sommario/riassunto: The book explores how we understand global conflicts as they relate to the "European refugee crisis", and draws on a range of empirical fieldwork carried out in the UK and Italy. It examines how global conflict has been constructed in both countries through media representations - in a climate of changing media habits, widespread mistrust, and fake news. In so doing, it examines the role played by historical amnesia about legacies of imperialism - and how this leads to a disavowal of responsibility for the causes why people flee their countries. The book explores how this understanding in turn shapes institutional and popular responses in receiving countries, ranging from hostility-such as the framing of refugees by politicians, as 'economic migrants' who are abusing the asylum system; to solidarity initiatives. 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. In challenging the conventional expectation for immigrants to tell stories about their migration journey, the book explores experiences of discrimination as well as acts of resistance. It argues that listening to those on the sharpest end of the immigration system can provide much-needed perspective on global conflicts and inequalities which challenges common Eurocentric misconceptions. Interludes, interspersed between chapters, explore these issues in another way through songs, jokes and images.
Titolo autorizzato: How media and conflicts make migrants  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5261-3814-X
1-5261-3812-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910794145903321
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