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How Media and Conflicts Make Migrants.

By: Forkert, KirstenContributor(s): Bhattacharyya, Gargi | Oliveri, Federico | Graham, JannaMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (242 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781526138125Additional physical formats: Print version:: How Media and Conflicts Make MigrantsDDC classification: 302.2308691 Online access: click to view unlimited access
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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