[Commlist] MedieKultur – Call for Abstracts: Media and migration in times of crises

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MedieKultur, Journal of media and communication research
Call for abstracts: Media and migration in times of crises


Media and migration studies, and digital migration studies in particular 
(Leurs & Smets 2018; Smets et al. 2020, Leurs, 2023), have carved out an 
increasingly consolidated field. Building on these insights, this 
special issue emphasizes that migratory experiences and unfoldings are 
always already mediated: represented through media, and embedded in 
migrants’ media practices using digital (communication) technologies. 
Media not only set the frames of how crises are discursively 
constructed, perceived, and handled, but also how migration can be 
enacted and experienced via media, for example, by affecting decisions 
to migrate, possibilities of navigating routes, crossing technologized 
borders, maintaining communication across distances or diasporic 
communities, as well as through public representations and imaginations.

Moving away from seeing migration as an isolated event that constitutes 
a crisis in itself (De Genova 2018; Sahin-Mencutek et al. 2022), 
migration has been and is a constant phenomenon, often simultaneously 
occurring in times of crises (pandemic, global warming, natural 
disasters, war in Ukraine etc.) and thereby leading to new forms of 
media usage and media representations. We invite scholars to enlarge 
their perspectives by includling multiple crises as an alarming 
background to study how media usage and media dependency produce, affect 
and shape migration movements.

In this special issue, we explicitly draw attention to migrants’ media 
use, practices, and migrants’ media portrayal concerning a broader 
historical moment characterized by crises. We welcome theoretical, 
methodological, or empirical contributions addressing the following 
topics as well as other foci within the field of media and migration. 
Please find more information here: 
https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/announcement/view/1116


Submission guidelines

Abstracts should contain a maximum of 500 words excluding references. It 
should include the research question(s) addressed, theoretical and 
methodological approaches as well as preliminary conclusions. Abstracts 
should be submitted as a Word document via our open journal system at 
https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur, where you will need to create a user 
account if you do not already have one. Please indicate in “comments for 
the editor” section that you are submitting to the special issue “Media 
and migration in times of crises”. There are no charges for submission, 
review or publishing articles. In case of any questions regarding the 
uploading process, please contact: (lynge /at/ cc.au.dk) or (majanord /at/ oslomet.no)

Timeline

Deadline for abstract submission: November 1st, 2023

Acknowledgement of acceptance for full paper submission: November 23rd, 2023

Deadline for full paper: March 10th, 2024

Expected publication: Fall, 2024



Guest Editors

Jeannine Teichert, Paderborn University

Heike Graf, Södertörn University

Philipp Seuferling, LSE


Issue Editors

Maja Nordtug, Oslo Metropolitan University

Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aarhus University


References:

Leurs, K., & Smets, K. (2018). Five questions for digital migration 
studies: Learning from digital connectivity and forced migration in (to) 
Europe. Social Media+ Society, 4(1), 2056305118764425.

Smets, K. et. al. (2020). The Sage handbook of media and migration. Sage.

Leurs, K. (2023). Digital migration. Sage.

De Genova, N. (2018). ’The migrant crisis’ as racial crisis: Do Black 
Lives Matter in Europe?. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 41, 1765–1782.

Sahin-Mencutek, Z., Barthoma, S., Gökalp-Aras, N. E., & Triandafyllidou, 
A. (2022). A crisis mode in migration governance: comparative and 
analytical insights. Comparative migration studies, 10(1), 12.


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