1st Edition
Xenophobia in the Media Critical Global Perspectives
Through its global and critical perspectives, this book brings together knowledge, ideas and tools to understand the problems and identify effective solutions, best practices and alternative approaches to combat xenophobia in the media and build tolerance and social cohesion.
Although various studies have been conducted on the extent to which the media construct xenophobic discourse against immigrants and refugees and how they represent immigrants, there exists a research lacuna as to the dynamics of the xenophobia construction in the media; the effect of xenophobic discourse of the media and its function; the nexus between xenophobia construction of the media and the social, economic and political conditions; and the impact of the xenophobic discourse of the media on immigrants and host communities. This book adds knowledge and empirical evidence to fill this research gap.
This book will be an important resource for journalists, scholars and students of media and communication studies, journalism, political science, sociology and anyone covering issues of race and racism, human rights, immigration and refugees.
Chapter 1: Xenophobic Portrayal of Immigrants and Refugees and Threat Image Construction in the Media: An Introduction
Senthan Selvarajah, Nesrin Kenar, Ibrahim Seaga Shaw, and Pradeep Dhakal
Part 1: Principles and Practise of Journalism of Tolerance
Chapter 2: Reporting Syrian refugees in Turkey: the myths, the facts, and human rights journalism
Ibrahim Seaga Shaw and and Nesrin Kenar
Chapter 3: Journalism of Tolerance: Reporting About Refugees and Immigrants
Senthan Selvarajah and Tabeenah Anjum
Chapter 4: Xenophobia in the Media and Turkish Management of Syrian Refugees: Applications of Lessons on Afghan Refugees and Ukrainian Immigrants
Maheen Farhat Raza and Muhammad Ali Raza
Part 2: Media Stereotyping of Minorities and Women
Chapter 5: Immoral Image of Emigrant Women: A Distanced-Marginalised Self?
Rahime Özgün Kehya
Chapter 6: The Dangers of the Syrian Woman from the Lens of Mainstream Turkish Media Outlets
Fidan Cheikosman
Chapter 7: Displacement, Citizenship and Media: A Sociological Study of Paroja Tribe and its Identity Construction
Devanjan Khuntia
Chapter 8: The nexus between xenophobia and GBV: A qualitative inquiry on African migrant women’s lived experiences in Durban, South Africa
Venencia Paidamoyo Nyambuya
Part 3: Politics of Xenophobia and Portrayal of Enemy Image
Chapter 9: Discrimination, Criminalization and Xenophobia in the Media: the case of Venezuelan Migration in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
Sergio Luiz Cruz Aguilar
Chapter 10: ‘Aliens are here to destroy us’ – Xenophobia and the Art of Headlining in South African Media
Bhekinkosi Jakobe Ncube
Chapter 11: Throwing Stones in still ponds: the nexus between Xenophobia and Afrophobia and the Instrumentalisation of the Media in Cȏte d’Ivoire and post-Apartheid South Africa
Dele Ogunmola
Part 4: Social Media and Xenophobia
Chapter 12: Interplays between Anti-Islam and Anti-Migration Sentiments in the Turkish Context
Hasan Ali Yilmaz
Chapter 13: Hate Speech on Facebook and Its Implications on National Unity in Cameroon
Kingsley L. Ngange, Brain Binebunwi, and Stephen N. Ndode
Chapter 14: The criminalization of migration in South Africa: An exploration of Operation Dudula and Fiela from a social media perspective
Lungisani Moyo and Oluyinka Osunkunle
Chapter 15: Anti-immigrant attitudes and social media use: An empirical study on xenophobia in North Macedonia
Arta Xhelili and Nita Beluli Luma
Biography
Senthan Selvarajah is a co-director at the Centre for Media, Human Rights and Peacebuilding, UK; CEO at the Gate Foundation, UK; and a PhD supervisor for Unicaf University students.
Nesrin Kenar is an associate professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Sakarya University, Turkey, and a co-director of the Centre for Media, Human Rights and Peacebuilding, UK. She was the former vice dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences at Sakarya University.
Ibrahim Seaga Shaw is the chairman/information commissioner of Right to Access Information Commission; the coordinator of the Graduate Program at the Faculty of Communication, Media, and Information Studies, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone; and a co-director at the Centre for Media, Human Rights and Peacebuilding, UK.
Pradeep Dhakal is a co-director at the Centre for Media, Human Rights and Peacebuilding, UK; and a director of Chetanalaya Institute, Nepal. Before that, he was a lecturer at Tribhuvan University, Nepal.
