"This manual brings together principles of conflict-sensitive journalism with practical strategies for reporting on migration. It explores how media workers can play a role in protecting and promoting rights of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. It provides guidelines that both editors and their journalists can follow as they strategise around ways of reporting on the migration issue, what to do during conflict and how to cover the post-conflict period. This handbook was developed for the Southern African media after an eight-month project that explored the roles journalists can play in reporting on migration in the region. It is based on presentations delivered at a series of workshops organised by Internews in South Africa on the theme ‘Changing the Narrative on Migrants in Southern Africa’. The workshops included a combination of presentations from subject specialists, panel discussions and practical activities facilitated by academics and practitioners, who combined the fundamental theories in their field and rich experiences of their practice." (Foreword)
1 Changing the Narrative on Migrants in SADC, 5
2 Conflict-Sensitive Journalism, 7
3 Unconscious Bias, 13
4 Principles of Reporting on Migration, 16
5 Solutions Journalism, 18
6 Migration and Economy, 20
7 Migration and Xenophobia, 29
8 Migration and Children, 33
9 Other Migrant Groups and Topics to Take Note of, 36