Reporting on Migrants and Refugees: Handbook for Journalism Educators
Key Guidance
Paris: UNESCO (2021), xiv, 304 pp.
Series: UNESCO Series on Journalism Education
ISBN 978-92-3-100456-8
CC BY-SA
Signature commbox: 10-Minorities-E 2021
"This handbook enables journalism educators worldwide to address one of the challenges of the 21st century – migration and refugee matters. In a set of thirteen modules, journalism educators are provided with a comprehensive curriculum. It covers all aspects needed to train analysis, research, presentation, marketing, and ethics of migration coverage. The handbook is unique as it comprises results of communication studies as well as political and social sciences. It has been developed by an international and cross-cultural group of media researchers, media educators and media practitioners. Journalism educators will be enabled to jump-start a new curriculum. Journalism students will learn that matters of migration and forced displacement are concerned about human beings and therefore require knowledge and awareness of accurate facts, reliable sources, ethical reporting and good practices. Experienced journalists will benefit from using the volume as a self-learning tool, and media development organizations may adapt the curriculum to their training plans." (Short summary, page III)
Introduction, 1
Module 1: Matters of Migrants and Refugees - Challenges of the 21st Century, 11
Module 2: Key Sources, Key Facts, Key Terms and Numbers, 29
Module 3: Context Factors for Migration and Forced Displacement, 53
Module 4: The Media and the Migration Story - An analysis Across Countries, 97
Module 5: Migration Coverage - Media Effects and Professional Challenges, 113
Module 6: Case Study Guinea-Bissau (West Africa), 135
Module 7: Case Study Cameroon (Central Africa), 155
Module 8: Case Study Germany (West Europe), 175
Module 9: African Movements: from the Continent, Within the Continent, Within Countries, 197
Module 10: Professional Migration Coverage: Best Practices and Ethical Dimensions, 223
Module 11: Reporting on Migrants and Refugees: Dealing with Trauma, 243
Module 12: Towards Collaborative Coverage of Migration, 263
Module 13: Improving the Impact: Journalistic Strategies and Editorial Marketing, 277
Appendix, 295
Module 1: Matters of Migrants and Refugees - Challenges of the 21st Century, 11
Module 2: Key Sources, Key Facts, Key Terms and Numbers, 29
Module 3: Context Factors for Migration and Forced Displacement, 53
Module 4: The Media and the Migration Story - An analysis Across Countries, 97
Module 5: Migration Coverage - Media Effects and Professional Challenges, 113
Module 6: Case Study Guinea-Bissau (West Africa), 135
Module 7: Case Study Cameroon (Central Africa), 155
Module 8: Case Study Germany (West Europe), 175
Module 9: African Movements: from the Continent, Within the Continent, Within Countries, 197
Module 10: Professional Migration Coverage: Best Practices and Ethical Dimensions, 223
Module 11: Reporting on Migrants and Refugees: Dealing with Trauma, 243
Module 12: Towards Collaborative Coverage of Migration, 263
Module 13: Improving the Impact: Journalistic Strategies and Editorial Marketing, 277
Appendix, 295
