Bad News for Refugees

Philo, Greg; Briant, Emma Louise; Donald, Pauline

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“…Traditionally, most research on media and migration has focused on the question of representation -the ways migrants are (mis)representend in various formats of news and popular culture (Moore, Gross and Threadgold 2012) and the way such representations reproduce racism and xenophobia in society (Hartman and Husband 1973;van Dijk 1991;Philo, Briant and Donald 2013). Although the issue of representation of difference is of unquestionable political and social importance, it does not address the ways migrants themselves become creative users, or producers of new media not only to keep in touch at a distance, but also in order to develop their own content and take control over their representation.…”

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14. Polymedia communication and mediatized migration: an ethnographic approach

Madianou¹

2014

Mediatization of Communication

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This chapter investigates the cumulative consequences of new communication technologies for the phenomenon of migration. Drawing on a five-year-long comparative and multi-sited ethnography of long-distance communication within Filipino transnational families I demonstrate that the recent convergence in new communication technologies has profound consequences not just for the migrants and their left-behind families but for the phenomenon of migration as a whole. Although new media cannot solve the fundamentally social problems of family separation, they have become integral to how these relationships are experienced and managed. Despite the transnational asymmetries in infrastructure and media literacy, the increasing availability of transnational communication is used as a justification for key decisions relating to migration or settlement in the host country. This discourse, which ultimately normalizes migration decisions, is also evident at an institutional level. The chapter brings together research with institutional actors as well as migrant families and shows that transnational communication through new media -understood as an environment of polymedia -has become implicated in making female migration more socially acceptable while ultimately influencing patterns of migration. By bringing together an analysis of interpersonal communication as mediation and social change as mediatization the chapter shows that media do not just add a new dimension to the phenomenon of migration -they transform it altogether. The chapter also outlines the distinct contribution of an ethnographic approach to mediatization.

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14. Polymedia communication and mediatized migration: an ethnographic approach

Madianou¹

2014

Mediatization of Communication

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“…The problem is represented to be students using the HE visa route (Tier 4 of the Points Based System) to gain illicit access to the labour market or seeking to use study as a route to residency. This takes place in the context of increasingly negative and dehumanising public discourses on immigration in the UK (Philo, Briant, and Donald 2013). There are apparent shifts in mobility patterns associated with changes to immigration policy, as well as significant implications from the changes in discourses.…”

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UK policy discourses and international student mobility: the deterrence and subjectification of international students

Lomer

2018

Globalisation, Societies and Education

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Policies on international student mobility (ISM) have the capacity to structure both flows of students and the representations of globally mobile students through discourse. This paper draws on a text-based analysis of British policy discourses and secondary analysis of published statistics. It uses problematisation analysis to examine how problems and students are represented as social subjects. Growth in student numbers, particularly in high ranking institutions, has coincided with proactive policies over the last 20 years, suggesting that policy discourses are linked to mobility. But policy targets were not met and growth has fallen since the 2010 tightening of migration policy. Nor was the target of diversifying source countries met, meaning the UK remains dependent on student demand from a few nations. This mixed success suggests that student mobility is easily deterred by migration policy, but other policies have little impact on the nature of demand. In interaction with multiple, contradictory media and institutional discourses, policy discourses construct international students as sources of income, immigrants of doubtful value, consumers, and 'other'. These representations may be internalised by students, who learn to subjectify themselves. I call for an approach to ISM which puts statistics in dialogue with discourse. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…An important aspect of this tragedy, again not for the first time, is that refugees lack names, voice and agency. Philo et al (2013) have shown that in addition to the hostile and muddled media accounts of refugees, the absence of the voices of refugees is one of the most important issues in official accounts of refugees and asylum seekers. Refugees' voices are either ignored or used against them.…”

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“…The language and action used against refugees is of course no longer just about refugees but has spread and indeed is combined with wider attacks on multiculturalism and consolidation of 'security' as the most important function of the state (Fekete, 2009). In fact, the hysteria towards refugees, asylum seekers and minority ethnic communities (and in particular European Muslims) promoted by large parts of the media and many politicians not only has legitimised hostilities towards refugees and migrants but has actually gone beyond mere symbolic violence (Philo et al, 2013;Webber, 2012).…”

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Refugee crisis, imperialism and pitiless wars on the poor

Khiabany

2016

Media, Culture & Society

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According to the UN Refugee Agency, 59.5 million people around the world were forcibly displaced in 2014. The numbers are particularly high in countries which have been subject to a process of 'redrawing the map' by imperial powers or their regional allies. The response to the recent developments -a stage which has been dubbed as 'refugee crisis' -is as polarising and as problematic as before. On the one hand we have witnessed the heroic acts not only of the refugees themselves who moved collectively and refused to queue 'orderly' in the immigration lines, but also the magnificent response of citizens in all over Europe who rushed to feed, clothe, accommodate and welcome them. In contrast the overwhelming institutional response by 'liberal' states has been, and remains, depressingly illiberal. The official response to this humanitarian crisiswhich is after all the product of 'humanitarian interventions' -has nothing to do with whether or not Europe can cope with a 'swarm of people' aiming to exploit the 'host' countries. It is to do with managing a massive reserve army of labour. Forced migration is not only a product of this staggering inequality but also an important element of how that inequality is produced, maintained and managed.

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Bad News for Refugees

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14. Polymedia communication and mediatized migration: an ethnographic approach

14. Polymedia communication and mediatized migration: an ethnographic approach

UK policy discourses and international student mobility: the deterrence and subjectification of international students

Refugee crisis, imperialism and pitiless wars on the poor

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