[Commlist] Call for papers: Understanding Media Narratives around Migrants, Refugees, and People on the Move (Issue 53)

*Call for Papers: Understanding Media Narratives around Migrants, 
Refugees, and People on the Move*
*Deadline for articles: 30/09/2022*
Publication: December 2022

*Guest editors*
Prof. Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović, Institute for Balkan Studies, 
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Prof. Amjad Mohamed Saleem, Centre for Humanitarian Diplomacy, Sarajevo.

There are 1.044.000.000 of migrants, refugees, and people on the move 
worldwide. Among them, 281 million are international migrants, 84 
million are forcibly displaced people and 26.6 million are refugees. 
(IOM, 2022 ). Poverty, conflicts, climate threats and many other reasons 
force massive displacements in and across all continents. Hence 
migration and the displacement of people has become one of the crucial 
global challenges. Stories related to this phenomenon are published by 
media daily all over the world, but they often portray biased image of 
the reality on the ground, leading to a misperception about migrants, 
refugees and generally people on the move.
The narrative surrounding refugees and migrants is often influenced by 
fears, suspicion, prejudices, as well as preconceived notions, and is 
easily instrumentalized for political agendas (Network for Dialogue, 
2021). If media coverage is not rigorous, the rhetoric could lead to a 
misunderstanding of the situation of migrants and refugees, driving to 
the risk of the polarization of the public debate and refugees and 
migrants finding themselves the targets of increasing discrimination and 
hate speech (WACC, 2017).

In Tripodos issue 53 we are interested in understanding the following 
topics:  How does the media cover themes on  migrants and refugees? 
Which situation have more media attention? How are the stories about 
this topic elaborated and analyzed? What role do migrants and refugees 
have in these stories? To answer these timely questions, therefore we 
invite scholars and practitioners who study and work in the area of 
migration and media from interdisciplinary fields to submit their 
papers. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
- Media representation of migration and refugees.
- Media framings of migration and refugees.
- Migration, media and discrimination.
- Media coverage of forced displacements.
- Language and concepts about migration and its use in media.
- Migration narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Digital communication and migration.
- Political discourses on migration and refugees.
- Uses and characteristics of visual language related to migrants and 
refugees.
- Media, migration, and gender.
- Media, migration, and youth.
- Intersectionality and media representation of migrants.
- The role of the media in countering hate speech on refugees and migrants.
- Media and religious actors in addressing refugee and migration issues.


*Submission*
Papers should be sent by September 30, 2022. In order to submit original 
papers, authors must be registered with the journal (www.tripodos.com 
<http://www.tripodos.com>) as authors. Following this step, authors must 
enter their user name and password, activated in the process of 
registering, and begin the submission process. In step 1, they must 
select the section “Monograph”.

Rules and instructions regarding the submission of originals can be 
downloaded at www.tripodos.com <http://www.tripodos.com>. For any 
queries, please contact the editorial team of the journal at 
(tripodos /at/ blanquerna.url.edu) <mailto:(tripodos /at/ blanquerna.url.edu)>.
The issue will be entirely in English.


*Submission*
Papers should be sent by September 30, 2022. In order to submit original 
papers, authors must be registered with the journal (www.tripodos.com 
<http://www.tripodos.com/>) as authors. Following this step, authors 
must enter their user name and password, activated in the process of 
registering, and begin the submission process. In step 1, they must 
select the section “Monograph”.

Rules and instructions regarding the submission of originals can be 
downloaded at www.tripodos.com <http://www.tripodos.com/>. For any 
queries, please contact the editorial team of the journal at 
(tripodos /at/ blanquerna.url.edu) <mailto:(tripodos /at/ blanquerna.url.edu)>. The 
issue will be entirely in English.
No payment from the authors will be required.


*About Tripodos*

Tripodos is an international scholarly journal published by the 
Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations at Ramon 
Llull University. Since 1996, the pages of this biannual publication 
have offered a forum for debate and critical discussion regarding any 
discipline related to the world of communication: journalism, cinema, 
television, radio, advertising, public relations, the Internet, etc.
It is indexed in Scopus and in Web of Science (WoS) - Emerging Sources 
Citation Index (ESCI) database.

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