1st Edition

Gender, Migration and the Media

Edited By Myria Georgiou Copyright 2013
    168 Pages
    by Routledge

    168 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume brings together a number of experts who explore conceptual and policy challenges, as well as empirical realities, associated with gender and migration in highly mediated societies. The need to more systematically address the gendered experience of migration, especially in relation to political and cultural representation, is in the core of the discussions that unfold in this book. The book's chapters address a number of critical questions in relation to the representation of women as members of communities and as outsiders in culturally diverse societies. In doing so, the collection pays particular attention to the sphere of media and communications. Mediated communication has become crucially important in the construction of meanings of identity and citizenship, while the media have taken centre stage in framing debates on migration, border control and gender representations in culturally diverse societies. Gender, Migration and the Media presents a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary understanding of the practices and the consequences of mediated communication for identity and citizenship.

    This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

    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).