Representations of Refugees, Migrants, and Displaced People as the ‘Other’

  1. Rui Alexandre Novais ed. lit. 2
  2. Carlos Arcila Calderón ed. lit. 1
  1. 1 University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
  2. 2 Catholic University of Portugal, Braga, Portugal

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISSN: 2948-2704,  2948-2712

ISBN: 9783031650833,  9783031650840

Year of publication: 2024

Type: Book

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-65084-0 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

Abstract

This book explores how 21st-century media-based discourses on migrants, refugees, and displaced people both reinforce and reconfigure existing negative stereotypes about these groups as 'other.' It is particularly pertinent considering the increasingly polarized world context and the evolving communication ecosystem with new media as privileged platforms for exclusionary narratives toward the ‘outgroups’ of migrants, refugees, and displaced people. The book's contributions encompass various methodologies and disciplines within communication studies, including qualitative analyses of media representations and quantitative research on public opinion. Unlike much of the existing English-language scholarship on these marginalized communities, this book de-centers North America and the UK to offer a global perspective focusing on regions such as continental and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Persian Gulf, India, China, Turkey, Russia, and Scandinavia.