De-securitising ‘the South in the North’? Gendered Narratives on the Refugee Flows in the European Mediascape
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Resumo: | Abstract This article focuses on media representations of ‘the South in the North’ crosscutting the European mediascape in 2015 and the beginning of 2016. Assuming that both identities and perceptions of in/security are socially constructed, particularly by means of discourse, that security is gendered and gender constructions are in turn built on dynamics of in/security, and that gendered power relations and representations are always entangled with other structures of inequality and domination such as racism, this article argues that gendered categories of othering in the media’s representations have been critical to produce and justify 1) hegemonic narratives of securitisation that aim to protect an imagined European identity and 2) counter-narratives denouncing the racial and cultural discrimination tied to the ‘North’s’ hegemonic representations of refugees. Theoretically, the article proposes a dialogue among critical, feminist, and postcolonial peace and security studies. Methodologically, it analyses through discourse analysis three highly mediatised cases by examining the social representations of the refugees, namely their gendered components put forward by representative European media outlets based in the UK. It explores their implications in terms of the consolidation of stereotypes and hierarchies of suffering according to criteria of credibility/suspicion and vulnerability/threat, and identifies some examples of media counter-narratives on refugee flows through specific gendered and racialised representations. |
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De-securitising ‘the South in the North’? Gendered Narratives on the Refugee Flows in the European Mediascape |
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De-securitising ‘the South in the North’? Gendered Narratives on the Refugee Flows in the European Mediascape |
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De-securitising ‘the South in the North’? Gendered Narratives on the Refugee Flows in the European Mediascape Santos,Rita Narratives Gender Race Identity Migrants and Refugees Media Securitisation |
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De-securitising ‘the South in the North’? Gendered Narratives on the Refugee Flows in the European Mediascape |
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De-securitising ‘the South in the North’? Gendered Narratives on the Refugee Flows in the European Mediascape |
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De-securitising ‘the South in the North’? Gendered Narratives on the Refugee Flows in the European Mediascape |
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De-securitising ‘the South in the North’? Gendered Narratives on the Refugee Flows in the European Mediascape |
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De-securitising ‘the South in the North’? Gendered Narratives on the Refugee Flows in the European Mediascape |
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Santos,Rita |
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Santos,Rita Roque,Sílvia Santos,Sofia José |
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Roque,Sílvia Santos,Sofia José |
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Santos,Rita Roque,Sílvia Santos,Sofia José |
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Narratives Gender Race Identity Migrants and Refugees Media Securitisation |
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Narratives Gender Race Identity Migrants and Refugees Media Securitisation |
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Abstract This article focuses on media representations of ‘the South in the North’ crosscutting the European mediascape in 2015 and the beginning of 2016. Assuming that both identities and perceptions of in/security are socially constructed, particularly by means of discourse, that security is gendered and gender constructions are in turn built on dynamics of in/security, and that gendered power relations and representations are always entangled with other structures of inequality and domination such as racism, this article argues that gendered categories of othering in the media’s representations have been critical to produce and justify 1) hegemonic narratives of securitisation that aim to protect an imagined European identity and 2) counter-narratives denouncing the racial and cultural discrimination tied to the ‘North’s’ hegemonic representations of refugees. Theoretically, the article proposes a dialogue among critical, feminist, and postcolonial peace and security studies. Methodologically, it analyses through discourse analysis three highly mediatised cases by examining the social representations of the refugees, namely their gendered components put forward by representative European media outlets based in the UK. It explores their implications in terms of the consolidation of stereotypes and hierarchies of suffering according to criteria of credibility/suspicion and vulnerability/threat, and identifies some examples of media counter-narratives on refugee flows through specific gendered and racialised representations. |
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