| Description |
1 online resource (206 pages) : color illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- How do we sing our song in a strange land? Belonging: voices of London's refugees in the Museum of London -- Forgotten by history: refugees, historians and museums in Britain -- Traditional methods and new moves: migrant and refugee exhibitions in Australia and New Zealand -- Framing refugees: contexts and narratives in other media -- Introduction and overview -- Conceptual proposals and analytic steps -- Specifying contexts: significant features -- The Tampa and initial framing -- Hardening and sustaining a frame -- One representation unravelled, another sustained -- Dissent: challenges focused on truth and law -- Point of change: from concerns for individuals to concerns for groups -- Change: From individuals to groups to policies -- Extensions: other countries, continuing questions |
| Summary |
Across countries and time, asylum-seekers and refugees have been represented in a variety of ways. In some representations they appear negatively, as dangers threatening to 'over-run' a country or region with 'floods' of incompatible strangers. In others, the same people are portrayed positively, with compassion, and pictured as desperately in need of assistance. How these competing perceptions are received has significant consequences for determining public policy, human rights, international agreements, and the realization of cultural diversity, and so it is imperative to understand how these images are perpetuated. To this end, this volume reflects on museum practice and the contexts, stories, and images of asylum seekers and refugees prevalent in our mass media |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-206) |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 4, 2019) |
| Subject |
Refugees -- History -- Exhibitions
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Refugees -- History -- Case studies
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Refugees -- Press coverage -- Exhibitions
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Refugees -- Press coverage -- Case studies
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Mass media and immigrants -- History -- Exhibitions
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Mass media and immigrants -- History -- Case studies
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Emigration and immigration -- History -- Exhibitions
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Emigration and immigration -- History -- Case studies
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Museum exhibits -- Case studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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ART / Museum Studies
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Emigration and immigration
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Mass media and immigrants
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Museum exhibits
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Refugees
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Refugees -- Press coverage
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Exhibition catalogs
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lohman, Jack, author
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Marfleet, Philip, 1948- author.
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| ISBN |
9781789204032 |
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1789204038 |
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