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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.
Migration and the Postsecular
Migration and the Postsecular
Introduction
In 2016, French authorities implemented a ban on so called ‘burkinis’ on the beach, arguing they were concerned about religious clothing after the recent terrorist attacks in the country. Shortly after, newspapers all over Europe published the pictures of a Muslim woman on a beach in Nice, forced by the police to take off her scarf and cardigan. French news agencies wrote that she was fined for not ‘wearing an outfit respecting good morals and secularism’ (Quinn, 2016). One day later the ban was declared illegal by the highest legal court in France. In instances as the one described here, about the position of Islam and Muslims in Europe, religion and secularism ...
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