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RESOURCE
MATERIAL / Media
Diversity: MIGRANTS, REFUGEES AND IDPs |
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selection of articles and resources examining the theory of the media's role in
reporting on migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons |
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Multimedia publication on asylum and migration
VIRTUAL MIGRANT has produced multiple-format EXHALE, a publication containing original artworks (video, interactive and audio) produced by a number of artists. Their art, video and music with conscience, anger, sensitivity and emotion, reflect ‘a range of unsensational yet quietly powerful and thought-provoking narratives on the lives and wider contexts around the asylum and migration stories and perspectives which the artists have connected with across the UK'. The box set includes a video-DVD, an audio-CD, interactive ROM art, and two booklets of essays, images and contexts. For more check www.virtualmigrants.com/exhale or email info@virtualmigrants.com
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A study by Thames Valley University on Effects of the Media Priming Asylum-seeker Stereotypes on Thoughts and Behaviour
Stereotypical assumptions about asylum-seekers in the UK are an area of serious social and political concern. This study, led by Thames Valley University, uses a series of psychological experiments to ascertain to what degree media accounts of asylum-seekers affect the assumptions of those exposed to them. For the findings please visit the on the ESRC website.
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The Language of Hate: A Slip of the Tongue or Racism?
Hatred of minorities and 'others' has grown noticeably in Russia in recent years, writes Sergey Lukashevskiy. This atmosphere of hatred has an effect on the way that people speak, including the way language is used in the mass media - language that has the power to control as much as disseminate ideas. (Sreda/Moscow Helsinki Committee)
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Handbook to look at coverage of forced displacement
The Colombia group Medios para la Paz (MPP), or “Media for Peace,” is preparing a manual for journalists who cover issues of forced displacement. Forced displacement is the abandoning of lands and homes by people or communities, under threat of internal conflict. Colombia’s displaced population is the world’s third-largest. (IJNet)
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Reporting
Diversity – Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
The Media Diversity Institute’s “Reporting Diversity Guide” is
a comprehensive manual for journalists and trainers. It includes a ‘Refugees
and Internally Displaced Persons’ section which provides tips on reporting
on these groups, and case studies of two articles on this theme from Britain and
the United States. (MDI,
2002 ) (PDF
/ 160KB)
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Nationalism, racism and xenophobia in the Russian mass media
A media monitoring by the Moscow Helsinki Group which forms a part of its large-scale report 'Nationalism, xenophobia and intolerance in contemporary Russia'. The monitoring was conducted in five Russian regions from October 2001 to January 2002. Regions were chosen to provide a cross-section of geographical location, economic performance, political preferences, and known high and low levels of hate speech. Widespread hate speech was uncovered, ranging from 'soft' forms to direct calls for violence.
(Moscow Helsinki Committee)
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The Language of Hate: A Slip of the Tongue or Racism?
Hatred of minorities and 'others' has grown noticeably in Russia in recent years, writes Sergey Lukashevskiy. This atmosphere of hatred has an effect on the way that people speak, including the way language is used in the mass media - language that has the power to control as much as disseminate ideas. (Sreda/Moscow Helsinki Committee)
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Handbook to look at coverage of forced displacement
The Colombia group Medios para la Paz (MPP), or “Media for Peace,” is preparing a manual for journalists who cover issues of forced displacement. Forced displacement is the abandoning of lands and homes by people or communities, under threat of internal conflict. Colombia’s displaced population is the world’s third-largest. (IJNet)
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press coverage of asylum issues can be linked to racist attacks
Press
coverage of asylum issues in the UK can be linked to racist attacks and street
harassment, say academics in a new report, 'Media Image, Community Impact'. The
first research of its kind, it says negative reporting in UK newspapers triggers
hostile actions because it increases community tension. The report was prepared
by the Information Centre About Asylum and Refugees (ICAR), and commissioned and
funded by the Mayor of London. |
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to bias in Swedish news media
Quick Response started in 1999 when a
Swedish committee against racism came with an idea for an institution that could
quickly respond to false information being spread in the media about immigrants.
Quick Response scrutinizes Swedish news reporting on the issues of integration,
immigration and racism. It aims to encourage debate among journalists about how
these issues are reported and on how people are portrayed in the media. Its main
target groups are journalists and journalism students. An interview with Ulku
Holago, Quick Response project manager, on diversity issues in her nation's newsrooms.
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