WORKSHOPS

Media and Migration

Mediated communication plays an influential role in demographically and culturally changing societies. It is crucial in all types and phases of international migration. Mass mediated images of different locations and transnational communication among migrants, would be migrants and diasporic groups contribute to the mobility of people. Mass mediated framings of immigrants and minorities influence on the attitudes of host societies and on integration and immigration policies. In addition, in mediated societies media forms a crucial part of everyone's integration, identity and belonging.

This working group welcomes papers scrutinizing the crossroads of migration and media. The group invites proposals which engage with the following themes:

  • Migration, immigration, asylum seeking, refugees, diaspora, integration and multiculturalism in the mainstream media - global, transnational, national, regional or local.
  • Same issues in alternative, new and minority media
  • Media's influence on policy making, values and attitudes
  • Production of migration related topics/media for mainstream or minority audiences: journalism, entertainment, film and new media
  • Audience and reception studies: Interpretation of mediated texts, media use and role of the media among diasporic groups and migrants
  • Issues of racism, discrimination and social cohesion
  • Theoretical examination of multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, racism, anti-racism, discrimination and marginalization in the context of media and communication.

    • Organizer:

    Karina Horsti, Post doctoral researcher, Project leader for Nordic research network for media, migration and society, CEREN-University of Helsinki, Finland

    Papers:

    Sharam Alghasi: Iranian media consumption in Norway: Surfing in media-universes

    Rikke Andreassen: Veils in the media

    Gunn Bjørnsen: Diversity in the newsroom? An exploration of the mission of journalism in multicultural Norway

    Elisabeth Eide and Vibeke Hoem : Minority Actors – media experiences and strategies

    Katherine Goodnow and Hanne-Lovise Skartveit: New Media, Refugees and Participation

    Camilla Haavisto: Towards ethnocultural diversity and inclusion of minorities in the public sphere – Finland as a case

    Peter Hervik: Making Sense in and of the News Media

    Karina Horsti: Hope and Despair: Representations of Europe and Africa in news coverage of “migration crisis

    Mustafa Hussain: Harm and offence through mass mediation - The cartoons controversy and the Danish Press

    Suvi Keskinen: Bound by culture? 'Honour-related violence', gender equality and the Nordic welfare state

    Amina Loukili: Moroccan diaspora, Internet and national imagination

    Kaarina Nikunen: Media, ethnicity & school