1st Edition

Xenophobia in the Media Critical Global Perspectives

266 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.