[Commlist] (Europe's) Migrations and the Media seminar

*/(EUROPE’S) MIGRATIONS AND THE MEDIA /*

*Department of Media and Communications *

*London School of Economics and Political Science *

*Tuesday, 21 June 2022, 10am-5pm *

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To attend *in person*, register here 
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/347263373097>/ to attend *online*, 
register here <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/349436974397>

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This one-day seminar explores political and media discourses of forced 
migration in Europe in the contexts of the war in Ukraine and the 
earlier ‘refugee crisis.’ Anti-refugee and anti-immigration discourses 
were politically effective during the so-called ‘migration crisis’ of 
2015. The collective production of culturally prejudiced knowledge 
constructed refugees as a ‘threat’ and turned them into Europe’s 
‘enemy.’ It drew on discursive patterns of Islamophobia, 
Euro-scepticism, anti-globalisation, racism and discrimination.

The discourse of threat has been largely absent from the coverage of the 
war in Ukraine and its refugees. For the Bulgarian Prime Minister, 
Ukrainian refugees are ‘not the usual refugee wave of people 
<https://ec.europa.eu/migrant-integration/news/bulgaria-takes-first-steps-welcome-those-fleeing-ukraine_en>with 
an unclear past. None of the European countries is worried about them’.

Why are Europeans worried at times, yet welcome refugees on other 
occasions? What is driving European attitudes to forced migration? What 
is the role of media in the production of knowledge on migration?

This seminar brings together researchers and practitioners to explore 
political and media constructions of migrants and refugees, past and 
present,to engage with questions:

  * How are migrants & refugees constructed by word and image?
  * What are the new lines of inclusions and exclusions in Europe’s
    migration policy, discourse and practice? What purpose does this
    discourse serve?
  * What’s driving Europe’s politics of borders? How are borders
    narrated and justified?
  * How do migrants & refugees use media to communicate themselves?

*THE SEMINAR IS ORGANISED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH: *

LSE Media, Collegium Civitas, NAWA, POLIS**

**

*THE SEMINAR IS FINANCED BY:*

Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) Project No.: 
PPI/APM/2018/1/00019

**

*PROGRAMME *

**

*/PANEL 1 (10:00-11:30):/*/*The real and mediated lives of refugees* /

/The communicative architecture of the wartime border: Control, hope and 
solidarity; /Myria Georgiou, London School of Economics, UK & Marek 
Troszyński, Collegium Civitas, Poland//

/Smartphones as personal digital archives? Recentring migrant authority 
as curating and storytelling subjects//; /Koen Leurs, Utrecht 
University, the Netherlands

/Images of Ukrainian refugees in Ukraine: statuses, interpretations, 
values; /Anna Taschenko and Ludmila Iuzva, Taras Shevchenko National 
University of Kyiv, Ukraine//

*/PANEL 2 (12:00-13:00) Europe’s dangerous borders: an academic 
perspective/*

/The colour line and the externalization of borders; /Pierluigi Musaro, 
University of Bologna

/The forgotten asylum seekers at the Polish-Belarussian border/; Magda 
El-Ghamari, Collegium Civitas

*/PANEL 3 (13:30-15:00):/*/*Europe’s dangerous borders: through the eyes 
of practitioners */

/Refugees and people on the move: health needs;/Dr Apostolos Veizis, 
Executive Director /INTERSOS/, Greece

/Two borders, two standards of refugee protection in Poland. Experience 
in organizing humanitarian aid; /Anna Dabrowska, Director, Homo Faber, 
Warsaw

/From Criminalising Asylum Seekers to Expulsions to Rwanda: The UK’s 
Externalisation and Anti-Refugee Policies/; Dr Emilie McDonnell, UK 
Advocacy Coordinator, Human Rights Watch.

*/PANEL 4 (15:50-17:00) Media and the construction of cultural borders/*//

/A Great Divide: Polish media discourse on migration/; Marek Troszyński 
& Magdalena El-Ghamari, Collegium Civitas, Poland

/Albanian media discourse on three refugee crises:Syria, Afghanistan, 
and Ukraine in comparative perspective/; Elona Dhëmbo & Erka Çaro, 
University of Tirana, Albania

/Migration trends in Kosovo: the rising brain drain phenomena/; Labinot 
Hajdari & Judita Krasniqi; Kosovo Center of Diplomacy, Kosovo

/Racism and historical amnesia in the British media coverage of 
migration/; Eva Polonska, LSE


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