1. Introduction Myria Georgiou, London School of Economics, UK
Part I: Conceptual and policy interrogations
2. Access denied: The anatomy of silence, immobilization and the gendered migrant Katharine Sarikakis, University of Vienna, Austria
3. Getting integration right? Media transnationalism and domopolitics in Irelend Gavan Titley, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
4. Do Turkish women in the diaspora build social capital? Evidence from the Low Countries Christine Ogan, Indiana University, USA and Leen d’Haenens, Leuven University, Belgium
5. Intersectionality and mediated cultural production in a globalized post-colonial world Isabelle Rigoni, University of Poitiers, France
Part II: Engendered diasporic mediascapes
6. Watching soap opera in the diaspora: Cultural proximity or critical proximity? Myria Georgiou, London School of Economics, UK
7. Online mediations in transnational spaces: Cosmopolitan (Re-)formations of belonging and identity in the Turkish diaspora Miyase Christensen, Karlstad University, Sweden
8. Migrant African women: Tales of agency and belonging Olga Guedes Bailey, Nottingham Trent University, UK
9. Identities in-between: The impact of satellite broadcasting on Greek Orthodox minority (Rum Polites) women’s perception of their identities in Turkey Asli Tunc, Bilgi University, Turkey and Ariana Ferentinou, Bilgi University, Turkey
Biography
Myria Georgiou teaches in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics (LSE), UK. Her research focuses on questions of identity construction within mediated urban and transnational spaces. Previous publications include Transnational Lives and the Media: Reimagining Diasporas (2007) and Diaspora, Identity and the Media: Diasporic Transnationalism and Mediated Spatialities (2006).
