How media and conflicts make migrants /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Forkert, Kirsten (Author), Oliveri, Federico (Author), Bhattacharyya, Gargi, 1964- (Author), Graham, Janna (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
Subjects:	Emigration and immigration. Refugees. Social conflict. Mass media and world politics. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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
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