Migrants, Refugees, and the Media: The New Reality of Open Societies

ISBN-13: 9780815377177 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str.

Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel

Opis

The large-scale movement of refugees and economic migrants from conflict zones to more stable societies has resulted in challenges both for new entrants and their hosts. This fascinating volume brings together a collection of media analysis focused on immigration issues to examine how migration has been represented to the public.

Spis treści

Introduction 1 Migration maps and the performance of Europeanness  2 What if I were a refugee?: How game structures in interactive media frame refugee stories 3 The refugee crisis in Europe: A frame analysis of European newspapers  4 The Balkans route: Media and refugee crisis in Europe 5 The strategic framing of the 2015 migrant crisis in Serbia 6 A Spanish view of the European refugee crisis: TV news coverage 7 The humanitarian duty to communicate: An analysis of rumour 8 Eastern Europeans in British Press from 2004 to 2014

O autorze

Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel is Director of the Global Cooperative Initiative, an academic, diplomatic, and policy forum. She has served as Director of the Interdisciplinary Global Studies Research Initiative at Auburn University Montgomery. She was President and Program Chair of the Comparative Interdisciplinary Studies Section of the International Studies Association from 1988 to 2015. She was honoured with the Millennium Distinguished Service and Scholar Award in 2007. She has been a Fulbright Faculty Fellow, was inducted into the Lychnos Society, and was elected a Life Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society for her contributions to the study of colonial urbanization. She is widely published in the fields of urbanization and globalization. She is editor of the Global Interdisciplinary Series for Routledge and has edited several volumes, including The New Millennium: Challenges and Strategies for a Globalizing World, Global Cooperation, The New Security Frontiers, Power and Security in the Information Age, and Religion, Education, and Governance in the Middle East, among others. She has taught at the Universities of Delhi and Virginia. She has actively promoted interdisciplinary discourse and scholarship through the Millennium Series of Conferences and several other outreach initiatives.