02 August 2019
"Disaster reporting plays to set ideas about people from ‘"over there’"
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How the media contributed to the migrant crisis (Guardian, link):
"Disaster reporting plays to set ideas about people from ‘"over there’"
Europe’s refugee crisis, or more properly, a disaster partly caused by European border policies, rather than simply the movement of refugees towards Europe, was one of the most heavily mediated world events of the past decade."
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