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.

Racisms, Migration and Media: A Reflection on Mutable Understandings and Shifting ‘Problem Populations’

Racisms, Migration and Media: A Reflection on Mutable Understandings and Shifting ‘Problem Populations’

Racisms, migration and media: a reflection on mutable understandings and shifting ‘problem populations’
Gavan Titley

Introduction

Racism, in contemporary Western migration societies, is marked by seemingly contradictory impulses in public culture. In states with statutory and official commitments to opposing discrimination and racially motivated hatred (Bleich, 2011), and with cultural and political-economic investments in mediating a sense of welcoming diversity, racism is broadly regarded as an evil, historically overcome – a throwback warmed-over at the political ‘extremes’ and through instances of individual prejudice. At the same time, the obsessive centrality of migration politics to these polities is fundamentally structured by what Nicholas de Genova describes as an ‘intractably nativist’ question ...

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