The Media and Communication journal just announced the publication of their thematic issue: Refugee Crises Disclosed: Intersections between Media, Communication and Forced Migration Processes. Dr. Amanda Paz Alencar, an ERMeCC researcher from the Media and Communication Department, has edited the issue together with dr. Vasiliki Tsagkroni from the Institute of Political Science of Leiden University.
This thematic issue focuses on research at the crossroads of forced migration. Global forced displacements are bringing challenges and opportunities for communication between host and refugee communities on all cultural, social, political, and economic levels. At the same time, the media is playing increasingly important roles in refugees’ situations around the world.
As part of the discussion started during the Comparative Research Workshop on the European and Mediterranean Refugee ‘Crisis’ held at Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2017, this issue aims to further the debate on this topic and include research on different humanitarian and refugee crises across the globe (and their different discourses) and integration processes from an interdisciplinary perspective.
The issue features 11 papers from scholars based in different countries and brief commentary by Prof. Melissa Wall, from California State University. The issue is open access and can be downloaded from here.