Migration moves people, ideas and things. Migration shakes up political scenes and instigates new social movements. It redraws emotional landscapes and reshapes social networks, with traditional and digital media enabling, representing, and shaping the processes, relationships and people on the move. The deep entanglement of media and migration expands across the fields of political, cultural and social life. For example, migration is increasingly digitally tracked and surveilled, and national and international policy-making draws on data on migrant movement, anticipated movement, and biometrics to maintain a sense of control over the mobilities of humans and things. Also, social imaginaries are constituted in highly mediated environments where information and emotions on migration are constantly shared on social and traditional media. Both, those migrating and those receiving them, turn to media and communicative practices to learn how to make sense of migration and to manage fears and desires associated with cross-border mobility in an increasingly porous but also controlled and divided world. The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration offers a comprehensive overview of media and migration through new research, as well as a review of present scholarship in this expanding and promising field. It explores key interdisciplinary concepts and methodologies, and how these are challenged by new realities and the links between contemporary migration patterns and its use of mediated processes. Although primarily grounded in media and communication studies, the Handbook builds on research in the fields of sociology, anthropology, political science, urban studies, science and technology studies, human rights, development studies, and gender and sexuality studies, to bring to the forefront key theories, concepts and methodological approaches to the study of the movement of people. In seven parts, the Handbook dissects important areas of cross-disciplinary and generational discourse for graduate students, early career researcher, migration management practitioners, and academics in the fields of media and migration studies, international development, communication studies, and the wider social science discipline. Part One: Keywords; Part Two: Methodologies; Part Three: Communities; Part Four: Borders and Rights; Part Five: Representations; Part Six: Spatialities and Part Seven: Conflicts.

Out of Place: Refugees Navigating Nation, Self, and Culture in Former East Germany

Out of Place: Refugees Navigating Nation, Self, and Culture in Former East Germany

Out of place: refugees navigating nation, self, and culture in former east germany
Emily Edwards

Introduction: From Aleppo to Leipzig

The last time Europe witnessed a mass migration within its own borders was over half a century ago at the end of WWII in 1945 (Judt, 2005). Today, the conflict that has erupted as a result of the Syrian Civil War and the broader humanitarian crisis that has engulfed the Middle East has ushered in a new form of population displacement in Europe. In 2015, Germany opened its borders to allow the entrance of over one million Syrian asylum seekers (Connor, 2017). The historic electoral gains made by far-right anti-immigration ...

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