Migration and Crime: Realities and Media Representations

ISBN-13: 9783319958125 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 278 str.

Ecaterina Balica; Valentina Marinescu

Opis

It includes empirical research on migrants and crime to explore the risk and realities of crime and migration, as well as how mass media in different regions of the world has covered violent acts that have involved migrants (as victims or aggressors).

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Human trafficking and labour exploitation of migrants; Heidi Stöckl.- Chapter 2. The Middle East Refugee Crisis. Syria and Iraq Case; Paiman Ahmad.- Chapter 3. Risk factors of the irregular migratory waves on the Western Balkan route: Implications in the European Union countries; Merita H. Meçe.- Chapter 4. The securization of East-European migrants. The occurence of liminal identities in the European Union; Lucian Dumitrescu.- Chapter 5. Making the healdines: EU immigration to the UK and the wave of new racism after Brexit; Bianca Fox.- Chapter 6. Tales of migration from the Global South. The civilised and uncivilised migrant in the narratives from La Tercera and El Mercurio; Maria L. Urbina.- Chapter 7. From neglect to crime – The role of media in 2015 Eurpean migration crisis. A comparative study in three ECE countries: Romania, Hungary and  Slovenia; Irina Ana Kantor and Victor Cepoi.- Chapter 8. Violence against refugees and the Turkish mainstream media; Deniz Yoldaș.- Chapter 9. Victims or aggressors? Framing the Romanian migrants and crime in two British newspapers; Valentina Marinescu and Ramona Marinache.- Chapter 10. Changing Images of Migrants and Crime in Romanian Mass Media; Ecaterina Balica and Valentina Marinescu.- Chapter 11. Media representation of Moldovan emigrants and crimes. Case study: Online media; Croitoru Cătătlina, Ciobanu Elena and Dumitraș Vasile.- Chapter 12. Former inmates’ emigration goals and achievements before and after liberation; Angelica Hîrju and Lucian Rotariu.

O autorze

Ecaterina Balica is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Romanian Academy, and Coordinator of the 'Laboratory Violence and Crime. Prevention and Mediation’. She was an expert consultant for the Ministry of Justice, the National Institute of Criminology and NGOs. Her main research interests are: migration and crime, femicide, homicide-suicides, and restorative justice.

Valentina Marinescu is Professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, Romania. She teaches methods of research in communication sciences, introduction to communication and sociology of mass media. Her main research interests are communication and media studies.

Blurb

This book proposes an interdisciplinary, multicultural and contemporary approach to examining the controversial links between migration and crime. It includes empirical research on migrants and crime to explore the risk and realities of crime and migration, as well as how mass media in different regions of the world has covered violent acts that have involved migrants (as victims or aggressors). The chapters are written by authors from various countries including the UK, Turkey, Slovenia, Iraq, Albania, Chile, the Republic of Moldavia, and Romania, and from different fields of research including: criminology, sociology, political sciences and communication. They bring to light new ideas, new methodologies and results that could be taken and developed further. This volume allows readers to explore the impact of migration on crime.