How media and conflicts make migrants / Kirsten Forkert, Federico Oliveri, Gargi Bhattacharyya and Janna Graham.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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

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

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