Beyond the Border Headlines: Media Coverage of Nigerian and ECOWAS Migration Narratives Nigerian and West African media often reproduce global crisis-driven frames, neglecting everyday regional mobility and the human context of migration. Migration has long been central to West Africa’s social and economic fabric, shaping livelihoods, families, and regional interdependence. Nowhere is this more evident …
Produced by WHYNOT, Walk the Line is a powerful exploration of media and migration, documenting the perilous journeys of Chinese migrants across the Darién Gap as they fled Zero-COVID restrictions, economic precarity, and political repression. Blending documentary footage with user-generated videos and social media content, the film adopts a hybrid media style that mirrors the …
From the Archives . . . The Wall: Oppression and Resistance by Sumita S. Chakravarty Keywords: surveillance state, wall, deportation, authoritarianism At the end the Stasi had 97,000 employees –more than enough to oversee a country of seventeen million people. But it also had over 173,000 informers among the population. In Hitler’s Third …
By Chase Louden “The elusiveness of ‘Home’ has characterized Black existence in the United States” —Jacqueline Patterson, “Displaced on Repeat: Black Americans and Climate Forced Migration,” July 12, 2023 Climate Migration within the United States “That storm took the stairs!” Patrina Myers exclaimed, realizing Hurricane Nicole had swept away the staircase of a beachside pavilion …
This defiant attitude was how Martin Barry, Chairman of reSITE, opened their 2016 Conference in Prague three weeks ago. Entitled “Cities in Migration,” the conference took place against a background of an almost uncountable number of challenging political issues related to migration. In Europe, the unfolding Syrian refugee crisis has strained both political and race …
Art doesn’t just reflect the world — it engages with it. Some 10 million to 15 million undocumented immigrants currently live in the United States, and their presence is the subject of fierce debate. So for the second installment of our series T Agitprop, we asked 13contemporary artists — Alfredo Jaar, Raúl de Nieves and …
This article assesses the strategies of anti-immigration actors on social media and the discursive construction of immigrants and refugees in user interaction on Facebook. It emphasizes the particular role of emotions in racist discourse and analyses how an open Facebook group generates and circulates anti-immigration and racist sentiments to a large audience. By analysing the …
Since the 2016 election, Congress has woken up to the consequences of allowing social media companies to hold vast stores of information about hundreds of millions of users and use it for their own purposes. But it continues to close its eyes to the dangers of allowing the Department of Homeland Security to tap into …
(NewsNation Now) — A new report claims social media platforms such as Facebook are encouraging illegal migrant smuggling and promoting hatred toward migrants, further turning up the heat on the social media giant in the wake of a company whistleblower coming forward this week. The report, from Border Report, a Nexstar website that reports on issues …
Human trafficking routes, modes of transit, prices, and even discounts freely promoted on Facebook sites, report finds. McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, like Facebook, encourage illegal migration to the United States as well as promote and illicit hatred toward migrants, cybersecurity and migration experts who are calling on …
Washington CNN — The Department of Homeland Security plans to begin requesting social media information on applications for immigration benefits and foreign travel to the US, an expansion of data collection already taking place. Some foreign travelers to the US, as well as applicants for immigration benefits, will be asked to list their social …
For migrants traveling north to the U.S.-Mexico border from countries like Chile and Brazil, the trip has become virtually impossible without two things — a smuggler and social media. Read More…
A sheriff in Texas is accused of regularly ordering his deputies to seize cash and vehicles from undocumented immigrants during traffic stops, even if they were not stopped for an alleged crime. Read More…
President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to make the United States a welcoming place for immigrants, but his plans to dismantle the Trump administration’s barriers to immigration could leave him in a quandary, especially as a new migration surge could be looming. Read More…
MEXICO CITY — President Trump didn’t force Mexico to pay for a border wall, but his bully tactics turned the country into a formidable barrier to the destitute Central Americans who travel north toward the U.S. border in mass migration events known as caravans. Read More…
The number of migrants that U.S. border agents took into custody rose to a 13-month high in September, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures published Wednesday that belie President Trump’s attempts to tout his enforcement record on the campaign trail. Read More…
Even as the world focuses on a new coronavirus variant, Francis is embarking on a trip that incorporates longstanding priorities like opening borders and welcoming the destitute. Read More…
The images at the Belarus-Poland border look familiar, but this emergency has little in common with previous waves of people from Syria, Myanmar and Afghanistan. Read More…
A judge had ordered the Biden administration to restart the Trump-era program, but doing so required cooperation from Mexico, which had been reluctant. Read More…
Hundreds of migrants, marooned in freezing weather on the Belarus side of the Poland-Belarus border, tried to rush into Poland. Polish border forces used water cannons and tear gas to drive them back. Read More…
Migrants have been placed in a warehouse along the Belarus-Poland border, after spending weeks camped out in fields. Between 2,000 and 4,000 migrants are at the border, many of them from Syria, Iraq and other parts of the Middle East. Read More…
Western leaders have accused Belarus’s president of manufacturing a migrant crisis along the E.U.’s eastern border. Several people have already died of exposure. Aid workers worry the death toll will increase as winter sets in. Read More…
Labor shortages in the United States have led to renewed calls to increase immigration to enlarge the work force. (Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa shortage.) “Even if it’s just temporary workers, immigration is a really, really effective tool to make sure you have people in open jobs who can produce,” Laura Collins, director of …
Border crossings declined for the third consecutive month in October, but thousands of Haitians and other migrants were waiting in Mexico, hoping to head north. Read More…
President Biden took office pledging to rescind the Trump administration’s deliberately harsh policies toward migrants who show up at America’s doorstep. But as Mr. Biden’s first year in office draws to a close, his administration continues to lean heavily on one of those policies: Title 42, an emergency public health order that allows the government …
Last year Vladimir V. Putin helped save Aleksandr G. Lukashenko’s Belarusian regime. But Russia now has an ever-more-erratic ally and risks entanglement in a dangerous crisis. Read More…
Europe has long paid other nations to keep refugees away from its borders. Now, Belarus wants something, too, and has brought migrants right to Europe’s door to get it. Read More…
The United States must reject the politics of cruelty and chart a new course on migration policy that is cooperative, compassionate, and pragmatic. Read More…
The figures reflect a jump from 2010, when the global number was at 221 million, and currently international migrants – defined as anyone who changes their “country of usual residence” – make up 3.5 per cent of the global population, compared to 2.8 per cent in the year 2000, according to the latest figures. Read …
The world is on the move as never before. Migrants, defined as people living outside their country of birth whether for work, to follow a family member, study or escape adversity, numbered more than 250 million in 2017. That was 3.4% of the global population, an increase from 2.8% in 2000. Half were living in …
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. may face violence and murder in their home countries. What happens when they are forced to return? Read More…
Pitou remembers someone yelling, “Go, go!” Three hundred young men, including him, began sprinting toward the fence. The first barrier was short. The second was three times taller. Pitou was exhausted by the time he got to the top. The barbed wire tore through his clothes, and his skin. Read More…
Just two months from now, the Israeli government says it will begin indefinitely imprisoning asylum seekers who refuse deportation. IRIN Middle East Editor Annie Slemrod explores what this means for the tens of thousands of people now facing an uncertain future. Read More…
The town of Cúcuta offers few jobs, little shelter and much crime, but for Venezuelan migrants it’s better than home. Read More…
he boy looked tentative as he took his seat at the sixth-grade graduation. Bone-thin with thick glasses, Jose turned to look for his parents in the auditorium. Read More…
One August morning nearly two decades ago, my mother woke me and put me in a cab. She handed me a jacket. “Baka malamig doon” were among the few words she said. (“It might be cold there.”) When I arrived at the Philippines’ Ninoy Aquino International Airport with her, my aunt and a family friend, …
The 6-year-old girl who was pleading with Border Patrol officials for her mother, begging for her aunt — on the excruciating audio published by ProPublica that helped galvanize opposition to family separations — had set out just weeks before from this village in the rolling foothills of western El Salvador, leaving behind her grandmother and …
“Unaccompanied” is an audio-visual story of young immigrants in the Washington, D.C. area who were among the thousands of children seeking refuge from the violence of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala created by photographer Oliver Contreras and CARECEN, the Central American Resource Center. Following President Obama’s statement about a humanitarian crisis on the border in …
Fleeing gang violence in El Salvador, Nancy and her two children sought asylum in the United States. Instead, they found themselves stuck in a border camp in Matamoros, Mexico — and the U.S. immigration system. Over the course of a year, in texts, voicemails and other dispatches from Matamoros, Nancy slowly unspooled her harrowing story …
A 5-year-old boy named José and his father fled the violence in Honduras and headed to the United States. They were separated at the border. What has happened to them in the weeks since? Read More…
The Trump administration’s recent border policy is, in part, a response to the large numbers of migrants who have been making the journey to the United States from Central America. For many, staying in their native countries is no longer an option. Read More…
The story of what happened when federal agents showed up in a small town that had overwhelmingly voted for President Trump, and his campaign rhetoric became a reality. Read more…
How many times in your life have you been asked, “Where are you from?” If you’re a person of color living in the United States, odds are that your answer is complex — it’s not just about a place on a map, but also family, history, traditions, work, and how you express yourself. Read More…
Over the past year, a record 2,000 migrants from Africa have drowned trying to reach Spain. Many of these migrants — mostly from Morocco, across the Strait of Gibraltar — make the journey in rickety vessels, not much bigger than canoes, that often don’t stand up to strong currents. Read More…
In August, Abrahm Lustgarten, who reports on climate, watched fires burn just 12 miles from his home in Marin County, Calif. For two years, he had been studying the impact of the changing climate on global migration and recently turned some of his attention to the domestic situation. Suddenly, with fires raging so close to …
January 2021 Low Covid testing rates in western Sydney blamed on failure to get message to migrant communities The Guardian Migrant Caravan, Now in Guatemala, Tests Regional Resolve to Control Migration The New York Times Biden to propose overhaul of immigration laws on first day of office Washington Post
Directed by Matthew Heineman, this film tells a story of brave citizen journalists who face the realities of life undercover, in exile and on the run to stand against the violence that is taking place in the city of Raqqa in Syria. This film has used the camera as a powerful weapon to show the …
January 2020 Trump Administration To Curb Immigrants From 6 Nations, Including Nigeria – NPR News Supreme Court Allows Trump to Implement Income-Based Restrictions on Immigration – Wall Street Journal Los Angeles church raided in FBI immigration-fraud bust – Fox News
January 2019 More Than 100 Migrants Die at Sea in Wreck Off Libya, Survivors Say – The New York Times At Least 52 Dead After Boats Capsize Off Djibouti, U.N. Migration Agency Says – The New York Times Morocco foils 89,000 illegal migration attempts in 2018: interior ministry – Reuters
Sarah Lopez American Quarterly Johns Hopkins University Press Volume 71, Number 1, March 2019 pp. 105-134 10.1353/aq.2019.0005 Abstract: Texas has more migrant detention centers and migrant prisons than any other state in the Union. This essay focuses on the construction and design of migrant detention facilities in Texas since the 1960s in relation to immigration …
The New Yorker featured an article about Syrian disbursement across the Middle east and Europe. The project tracks several Syrians, including a poet and a photographer as they set up life in new lands. Last year, as I began to map where Syrian artists had gone, a sculptor friend of mine who is based in …
Bloomberg News recently published data looking at global migration patterns by country. It’s a comprehensive, interactive data visualization tool that illuminates the extraordinary number of people on the move. The world is on the move as never before. Migrants, defined as people living outside their country of birth whether for work, to follow a family …
The HBO network show ‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’ breaks down the current state of legal migration in the United States after a summer of lies about the migration process from the president of the United States. Oliver addresses the the concept of the ‘invisible wall,’ the slowdown in the bureaucratic process of approving …
January 2018 Migrant slavery in Libya: Nigerians tell of being used as slaves BBC NEWS JANUARY 2 Returning Migrants Start Over in Sierra Leone NEWS DELHI TIMES JANUARY 2 Libya sends migrants home to Gambia EURONEWS JANUARY 2
January 2017 Hungry Venezuelans flood Brazilian towns, as threat of mass migration looms THE WASHINGTON POST JANUARY 1 The Islamization of Germany in 2016 GATESTONE JANUARY 2 Over 8,000 migrants ‘disappeared’ off Swiss radar in 2016 RT JANUARY 3
January 2016 DENMARK’S MIXED MESSAGES FOR REFUGEES NPR JANUARY 31 ONCE MIGRANTS REACH EUROPE, COUNTRIES FACE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE NPR JANUARY 29 LONG JOURNEY HOME FOR MIGRANT WORKERS IN WAGE BATTLES SHANGHAI DAILY JANUARY 28
World Press Photo Contest 2016 View Russian photographer Sergey Ponomarev’s collection of winning images from the 59th World Press Photo Contest. See all: world press photo
Claudia Martínez is an independent researcher who articulated brief sketches describing the spatial and material organization of refugee camps in the Palestinian camp of Bourj Al Shamali, situated high on a hill in southern Lebanon Find the article here
Journalist Daniel Howden explores the rise of prostitution among underaged refugees who are settled in Greece. A two-part investigation for Refugees Deeply that reveals a critical situation which mixes the Middle East Crisis and the economic recession in the E.U. “They have got mixed up in a crisis that has nothing to do with them and has …
New York Times reporter Charlie Savage describes the impact of an article he wrote about an ex-Guantanamo detainee – on readers, the subject and the writer. The journalist interviews Ahmed Abdul Qader, a Yemeni man who was imprisoned on charges of terrorism for a period of 13 years during Bush’s presidency. After his release, he found refuge in …
“Take any crisis that makes the headlines — the flow of refugees in the Middle East, Europe and the Horn of Africa; outbreaks of deadly or devastating viruses such as Ebola or Zika; drought emergencies in Ethiopiaand Malawi. Does journalism help to explain them? Or solve them? These questions were asked at the Polis conference of the London School of Economics on 21 April. The …
From The Guardian: “A study of media coverage, released today, looked at how migrant voices and experiences were framed in the run-up to last year’s election and came up with findings that, even if not entirely new, cast yet more light on a subject of continuing public interest. As its title implies, Victims and Villains* …
“This week, the popular right-wing Polish magazine wSieci ran a cover that has offended a lot of people. Reason being: It features an image of a woman being grabbed at by numerous hairy arms, and the words: “The Islamic Rape of Europe.” The photograph—which, minus the hands, looks a lot like a stock image for …
February 2015 Perception, Policy, and Migration 17 Feb 2015 Pacific Standard Magazine IOM: Some 3,800 Migrants Rescued from Mediterranean since Friday 17 Feb 2015 Voice of America News Canada’s millionaire migrants earn less than refugees, so why bother with wealth migration? 17 Feb 2015 South China Morning Post
A collection of articles that highlight the intersection of journalism and migration. AUSTRALIA The Dream Boat Nov 15, 2013 [The New York Times] Joel Van Houdt: “Once You Are in the Boat There is No Way Back” Dec 9, 2014 Australia’s Shipwrecked Refugee Policy Mar 2013 [The Monthly] EUROPE Europe’s huddled masses Aug 16th 2014 …
Migration is a complex issue, the range of views is huge and strong positions are often taken – not surprising considering that discussion can involve ethnicity, religion, nationality, jobs, sex, food, personal habits, education, taxes, housing, dress, language, health and much, much more. How the print, broadcast and electronic media report these discussions is crucial. …
A database on the more than 28,000 migrants who died on their way to Europe since 2000. Winner of the Datajournalism Awards. Navigate through 2858 events, 72 territories, 14 detention centers and the13742 migrants for which some data is available. ABOUT THE PROJECT The Migrants’ Files project was launched in August 2013 by a group …
Source: Journalist’s Resource “Illegal” — the label used by many to describe immigrants who lack official documents — is more and more frequently being swapped out for terms like “undocumented” or “unauthorized.” In April 2013, the Associated Press pledged to purge “illegal” in its style book, reserving the term only as a descriptor for actions, …
Christopher Dickey talks to António Guterres, the United Nations’ high commissioner for refugees, about the world’s desperate, dispirited, and displaced. If there is one faint hope for major improvements in the lives of refugees at present, it lies in communications technologies. Even in the camps, cellphones now allow people not only to communicate but also …
Can mainstream media be assumed to reflect in a constructive manner upon one of society’s most salient issues – migration? If so, will migration coverage be able to provide a pertinent representation of the particular preoccupations and circumstances that come into play in each country? Moreover, do election campaigns influence media treatment of this sensitive, …
Source: Brookings The U.S. media have hindered effective policy making on immigration for decades, and their impact has been increasing in recent years as a result of an ongoing evolution in the media industry. Deeply ingrained practices in American journalism have produced a narrative that conditions the public to associate immigration with illegality, crisis, controversy …
This article was written by Aidan White and originally published at The Ethical Journalism Network on 09 June, 2014. One of the toughest tests of ethical journalism in Europe is the tragic story of migration involving thousands of poverty-stricken men, women and children from Africa and the Middle East – many of them fugitives from war …
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IMMIGRATION: ROMANIAN OR BULGARIAN? YOU WON’T LIKE IT HERE THE GUARDIAN JANUARY 27 TECH FIRMS PUSH TO HIRE MORE WORKERS FROM ABROAD THE NEW YORK TIMES APRIL 11 A CONVERSATION WITH: AUTHOR AND FILMMAKER VIVEK BALD THE NEW YORK TIMES: INDIA INK MAY 31
