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Floods and Deserts: Information Access and Barriers in Moldova’s Refugee Response

Internews (2023), 44 pp.

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Media Framing of Immigrants in Central Europe in the Period Surrounding the Refugee Crisis: Security, Negativity, and Political Sources

Jan Kovár

Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, volume 48, issue 1 (2023), pp. 5-27

"This article investigates how all the main quality and tabloid newspapers and the television newscasts of the main broadcasters in Czechia and Slovakia framed immigrants, what the tone of the employed frames was, and who the main framing actors were before and during the EU refugee crisis (2013–2 ... more

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Images de migrants: Éducation, médiation et réception audiovisuelles

Pascal Laborderie, Dounia Mimouni-Meslem (dir.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2023), 251 pp.

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Transnational Communication and Identity Construction in Diaspora: A Comparative Analysis of Four Diaspora Communities from the Horn of Africa

Merga Yonas Bula

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2023), xvii, 325 pp.

"The study was sparked by the absence of literature on transnational masspersonal communication (tmc) of 'Eritrean', 'Ethiopian', Oromo, and Somali diaspora communities. To bridge this theoretical gap, an empirical study was conducted at meso-level based on three questions: (a) what topics do people ... more

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Oakland’s Mayan Diaspora Overcomes Language Barriers and Finds Refuge in Radio B’alam

Jesús Ayala

Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 30, issue 1 (2023), pp. 139-164

"Over one-million immigrants of Mayan descent live in the United States, but unlike other ethnic groups, Mayan diasporas struggle to create visibility, political and social capital, and acceptance through media. This case study used a qualitative methodology to analyze how Radio B’alam, the first ... more

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Enslaved. Trapped and Trafficked in Digital Black Holes: Human Trafficking Trajectories to Libya

Mirjam van Reisen, Munyaradzi Mawere, Klara Smits, Morgane Wirtz (eds.)

Bamenda: Langaa (2023), xxix, 791 pp.

"Eritrean refugees are being trafficked and enslaved in Libya, where they are tortured to force relatives to pay a ransom for their release. Labelled with a digital code, they are moved along in the possession of the traffickers through a series of ‘black holes’, in which their access to digital ... more

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Islam and Me: Narrating a Diaspora

Shirin Ramzanali Fazel

Chicago: Rutgers University Press (2023), 205 pp.

"Growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel was immersed in the language and culture of Italy, Somalia's former colonizer. Yet when she moved to Italy as a young mother in the 1970s, she discovered a country where immigrants and Muslims were viewed with a mixture of curiosity and suspi ... more

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Automating Immigration and Asylum: The Uses of New Technologies in Migration and Asylum Governance in Europe

Derya Ozkul

Oxford: Algorithmic Fairness and Asylum Seekers and Refugees (AFAR) Project;University of Oxford, Refugee Studes Centre (2023), 75 pp.

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Migrants, Refugees, and Societies

Washington, DC: World Bank (2023), xviii, 315 pp.

"Migration is a development challenge. About 184 million people—2.3 percent of the world’s population—live outside of their country of nationality. Almost half of them are in low- and middle-income countries. But what lies ahead? As the world struggles to cope with global economic imbalances, ... more

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Migration Information Campaigns: How to Analyse Their Impact?

Omar N. Cham, Florian Trauner

International Migration, volume 61, issue 6 (2023), pp. 47-57

"Information campaigns aim at discouraging potential migrants from leaving their countries irregularly. This article discusses how to analyse the impact of such campaigns by identifying different research lines in the literature. The impact of migration information campaigns may be explored by, firs ... more

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Beyond the Humanitarian Savior Logics? UNHCR's Public Communication Strategies for the Syrian and Central African Crises

David Ongenaert, Stijn Joye, David Machin

International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 2 (2023), pp. 164-190

"Forcibly displaced people often face restrictive migration policies and stereotypical discourses. Therefore, this study analyzes UNHCR's public communication strategies towards the Syrian and Central African crises. Through a comparative-synchronic multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA) of U ... more

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The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives
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Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Vinh Nguyen (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xviii, 509 pp.

"This Handbook presents a transnational and interdisciplinary study of refugee narratives, broadly defined. Interrogating who can be considered a refugee and what constitutes a narrative, the thirty-eight chapters included in this collection encompass a range of forcibly displaced subjects, a mix of ... more

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A Central American Audience Opportunity: The U.S. Diaspora

Claudia L. Cruz

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 32 pp.

"Advertising-based revenue strategies tend to create a tunnel vision within regional media outlets, distracting them from investing time and resources in innovation to explore other audience opportunities. Take the example of catering to the diaspora: what would happen if Prensa Libre (Guatemala), L ... more

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Defending Democracy in Exile: Policy Responses to Transnational Repression

Yana Gorokhovskaia, Linzer. Isabel

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2022), 42 pp.

"Transnational repression is strategically employed by autocrats, enabled by underprepared host governments, and spreading rapidly around the world. This report aims to assess the strengths and weaknesses in the global understanding of and responses to transnational repression, so that governments, ... more

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Understanding the Information Ecosystem: Roma Refugees in Moldova

Irene Scott, Marianna Prysiazhniuk et al.

Internews;International Rescue Committee (IRC) (2022), 11 pp.

"Eight months into the Russia-Ukraine war, Roma refugees in Moldova, continue to face significant barriers to accessing the information necessary to make decisions for themselves and their families and to access humanitarian services. This assessment shows that some barriers are well documented and ... more

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Broadcasting During COVID-19: Community Language Radio and Listener Well-Being

Ambrin Hasnain, Amanda E. Krause, John Hajek, Anya Lloyd-Smith, Laura Lori

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, issue 2 (2022), pp. 227-247

"Community language radio is known to provide information and social connection for community members. This article examines the role of community language radio in Australia during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Drawing on data from interviews with four presenters at a community language radio stati ... more

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Children’s Documentaries: Distance and Ethics in European Storytelling About the Wider World

Naomi Sakr, Jeanette Steemers

Journal of Children and Media, volume 16, issue 2 (2022), pp. 288-302

"The material challenges of funding, commissioning and distribution that are well known to inhibit production of children’s factual content about other countries and cultures operate in parallel with challenges arising from the moral responsibilities inherent in what Roger Silverstone called “th ... more

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Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies: Caring for (big) Data?

Marie Sandberg, Luca Rossi, Vasilis Galis, Martin Bak Jørgensen (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xvi, 262 pp.

"This OA book investigates the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital migration practices and trajectories. Digital technologies reshape not only every phase of the migration process ... more

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Diversität in Bibliotheken: Theorien, Strategien und Praxisbeispiele

Julia Hauck, Sylvia Linneberg (eds.)

Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur (2022), xvi, 305 pp.

"Der Vielfalt der Gesellschaft gerecht zu werden, stellt öffentliche Bibliotheken vor Herausforderungen. Der Band gibt einen Überblick zur strategischen und diskriminierungskritischen Organisationsentwicklung sowie zur Veranstaltungs- und Bestandsarbeit für diversitätssensible Öffnung. Eine Vie ... more

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Digital Access and Barriers in Displacement-Affected Communities in White Nile, Sudan: Results of a Connectivity Needs and Usage Assessment (CoNUA) by the Norwegian Refugee Council, the GSMA and REACH Initiative

Penelope Caswell, Matthew Drowner

London: GSMA (2022), 38 pp.

"This report shares findings on the access and use of mobile technology among South Sudanese refugees and the communities that host them in three areas of White Nile, Sudan. White Nile is a state in southern Sudan sharing a border and refugee crossing points with South Sudan. It is home to nearly 70 ... more

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