How Media and Conflicts Make Migrants.
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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.
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.