| Description |
1 online resource |
| 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 |
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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 |
| Analysis |
asylum |
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colonialism |
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conflict |
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media |
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memory |
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migration |
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news |
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racism |
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refugees |
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war |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 24, 2020) |
| Subject |
Emigration and immigration.
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Refugees.
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Social conflict.
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Mass media and world politics.
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Emigration and Immigration
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Refugees
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refugees.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
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Emigration and immigration
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Mass media and world politics
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Refugees
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Social conflict
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Oliveri, Federico, author
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Bhattacharyya, Gargi, 1964- author
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Graham, Janna, author.
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| ISBN |
9781526138125 |
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1526138123 |
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9781526138149 |
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152613814X |
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