Representations of Refugees, Migrants, and Displaced People as the ‘Other’
Author: Rui Alexandre Novais
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2024-10-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783031650833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores how 21st century media-based discourses on migrants, refugees, and displaced people both reinforce and reconfigure existing negative stereotypes about migrants, refugees, and displaced people as “other.” It is particularly pertinent given the increasingly polarized world context and the reconfigured communication ecosystem with new media as privileged platforms for exclusionary narratives toward the ‘outgroups’ of migrants, refugees, and displaced people. The book's contributions represent a range of methodologies and disciplines in communication studies, from qualitative analyses of media representations to quantitative work on public opinion. Unlike much anglophone scholarship on refugees, migrants, and displaced people, this book de-centers North America and the UK to offer a truly global perspective that studies continental and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Persian Gulf region, India, China, Turkey, Russia and Scandanavia.