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Children’s Documentaries: Distance and Ethics in European Storytelling About the Wider World

Naomi Sakr, Jeanette Steemers

Journal of Children and Media, volume 16, issue 2 (2022), pp. 288-302

"The material challenges of funding, commissioning and distribution that are well known to inhibit production of children’s factual content about other countries and cultures operate in parallel with challenges arising from the moral responsibilities inherent in what Roger Silverstone called “th ... more

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South Asia Consultations: Media, Information, and Participation in Displacement and Migration Settings

Utsa Sarmin, Priyankar Dey, Miriam Kueller

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2022), 14 pp.

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Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War

Chrisanthi Giotis

Oxford University Press (2022), x, 278 pp.

"In an era marked by an unprecedented refugee crisis and ongoing, seemingly unending, borderland conflicts, foreign correspondents could play a pivotal role in helping create a global public sphere that incorporates the perspectives of those who are most effected by ongoing resource-fueled wars—an ... more

Hate Speech and Polarization in Participatory Society

Marta Pérez-Escolar, José Manuel Noguera-Vivo (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xxv, 252 pp.

"Delving into the meanings, implications, contexts and effects of extreme speech and gated communities in the media landscape, the chapters analyse misleading metaphors and rhetoric via focused case studies to understand how we can overcome the risks and threats stemming from the past decade's defin ... more

Deutschland und seine Flüchtlinge: Das Wechselbad der Diskurse im langen Sommer der Flucht 2015

Uwe Becker

Bielefeld: transcript (2022), 285 pp.

Die Bedeutung von Flüchtling, Geflüchtete_r und Migrant_in: Eine frame-semantische Untersuchung zum Diskurs zur sog. Flüchtlingskrise

Philip Alexander Neumair

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2022), ix, 137 pp.

"Dieses Open-Access-Buch besteht aus einer korpusbasierten diskurssemantischen Analyse der differenzkonstruierenden und zum Teil Lebensrollen verkörpernden Ausdrücke Flüchtling, Geflüchtete_r und Migrant_in. Es setzt sich (teils kritisch) mit der Rolle, die Sprache in der medialen und öffentlic ... more

The World’s Most Neglected Displacement Crises 2021
Quick Overview

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) (2022), 18 pp.

"Each year, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) publishes a list of the ten most neglected displacement crises in the world. The purpose is to focus on the plight of people whose suffering rarely makes international headlines, who receive no or inadequate assistance, and who never become the centre ... more

Reporting on Migration and Refugees

UNHCR (2021), 12 pp.

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How We Talk about Migration: The Link between Migration Narratives, Policy, and Power

Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan, Haim Malka, Shelly Culbertson

Washington: Migration Policy Institute (2021), 46 pp.

"The scan identified eight core findings: 1. Both positive and negative narratives use a moral framework as a justification and trigger to tap into values. Both welcoming and restrictive narratives can be rooted in a view of what is right—for instance, calling for generosity or compassion toward r ... efugees because of humanitarian values, or arguing for penalties for irregular or unauthorized immigrants because of a commitment to law and order. 2. Many positive migration narratives invoke feelings of national pride rather than attempting to “sell” concrete benefits of migration. In many countries, top-down stories about migration tap into (and affirm) core notions of national identity (such as humanitarianism or diversity) and attempt to invoke pride (such as being a nation of immigrants). Other pro-migration narratives take a more transactional approach by highlighting how immigration reaps benefits for receiving societies, often focusing on migrants’ economic contributions. 3. Elite, top-down messages about migration often clash with views on the ground. Many government leaders spread messages about the benefits of migration, but these do not always align with people’s lived experiences. And in many places, the public has a fundamental mistrust of government or perceives that policymakers have failed to effectively manage migration challenges, which can also spark skepticism. 4. Narratives about migration are not always ideologically driven; they can be motivated by political pragmatism or used to advance other political or policy goals. Political rhetoric on migration is not always connected to ideology or values per se, but may instead be used as a calculated means to advance other policy goals (such as boosting foreign aid, gaining votes, or maintaining political power). The link to political pragmatism may offer an important clue as to why certain messages are amplified in certain settings and with certain audiences but not others. 5. The most dominant threat narratives are driven by insecurity—whether related to economics, culture and identity, personal safety, or national security. The stickiest negative narratives about migration are often interwoven with perceived threats to security (for instance, anxiety about jobs and resources, crime, or about changes to culture or social norms), even if these threats are not well supported by data. Threats to personal safety and security or economic livelihoods can be highly destabilizing, even if they are episodic or only affect a small number of people—and these fears are not easily defused with contrary evidence [...]" (Executive summary, page 3) more

Alianza de medios tejiendo redes: Narrativa periodística emergente sobre la migración en México

Diego Noel Ramos Rojas, Sarelly Martinez Mendoza

Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodistico, volume 27, issue 1 (2021), pp. 229-242

"Desde la perspectiva de la teoría del framing, este artículo investiga la narrativa que sobre la migración realizan diez portales informativos de México, agrupados en la Alianza de Medios Tejiendo Redes. De enero a junio de 2020, periodo que abarcó este análisis, encontramos 182 textos public ... more

Moving People: Proper Distance and Global News Coverage of Migration in 2019

Alexa Robertson, Nadja Schaetz

Global Media and Communication, volume 17, issue 3 (2021), pp. 321-343

"Moving people comprise both a subject of news reports (of refugees, migrants and other people-on-the-move) and a way of reporting on the issues involved. Viewers can be moved and placed in a discursive relation to the displaced when news stories construct what Arendt called ‘proper distance’. T ... more

A Freelancer’s Guide to Reporting on Refugees and Migration

Freelance Journalism Assembly;European Journalism Centre (2021), 4 pp.

¿Cómo comunicar la migración venezolana en Colombia?

Tulio Hernández

Cartagena: Fundación Gabo (2021), 28 pp.

"El siguiente es un manual de herramientas que reúne las reflexiones del sociólogo venezolano Tulio Hernández en torno al fenómeno migratorio complejo de Venezuela en Colombia. Estas herramientas, constituidas por buenas prácticas, son el producto de un ciclo de seis talleres para comunicadores ... more

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Wie deutsche Medien mehr Vielfalt schaffen: Handbuch für professionellen Journalismus im Einwanderungsland
Key Guidance

Berlin: Neue deutsche Medienmacher (NdM) (2021), 145 pp.

Migration et médias dans la région Euro-Méditerranéenne: Un guide pour les journalistes

Magda Abu-Fadil

Union européenne (2021), 74 pp.

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Mediating Nostalgia: The Meaning of Ranchera Music at a Mexican Community Radio Station

Joy Elizabeth Hayes

Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 14, issue 1 (2021), pp. 20-36

"This study investigates a battle over music and identity at Radio Zapotitlán, a community radio station in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. An analysis of over 20 interviews with station organizers, volunteers and listeners conducted in 2009 and 2010 indicates that while organizers and older listener ... more

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Movie Minorities: Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema

Hye Seung Chung, David Scott Diffrient

New Brunswick et al.: Rutgers University Press (2021), ix, 301 pp.

"Rights advocacy has become a prominent facet of South Korea’s increasingly transnational motion picture output, especially following the 1998 presidential inauguration of Kim Dae-jung, a former political prisoner and victim of human rights abuses who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000. Today ... more

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Médias, migration et exil au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord : Une étude exploratoire

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2021), 33 pp.

"DW Akademie commissioned field studies in the following six Middle Eastern and Northern African countries in 2019/20: Lebanon, Jordan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. The initiative to carry out these studies stems from DW Akademie’s long-standing experience in the MENA region and the identi ... more

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Communication de crise en Côte d'Ivoire: éviter la communication zéro et les incommunications

Kacou Goa

Paris: L'Harmattan (2021), 149 pp.

"Les analyses et réflexions axées sur la problématique de la communication de crise en Côte d’Ivoire permettent, d’une part, de révéler les sources, les enjeux et les conséquences de la communication publique et globale en période de crise. Elles mènent, d’autre part, à observer de n ... more