Dataset: Advertising

Advertising has become a controversial and crude way to pull or push the flows of migration. How do countries deter and attract newcomers through advertising? How does such advertising shape the process of human migration around the world? Most importantly, do these campaigns work?

Entries

Budweiser ad pays homage to founders’ immigrant roots…

November 11, 2019

Budweiser founder Adolphus Busch’s immigrated to America from Germany. During the 2017 Super Bowl, in the midst of Donald Trump’s chaotic policies banning muslims and… Read more

UK clothing brand Jigsaw ads feature messages of immigration inclusion

November 11, 2019

Jigsaw, a UK based fashion clothier, featured a campaign citing the ways immigrants help the UK fashion industry stay competitive. With Brexit looming, the company… Read more

United Colors of Benetton Ads Feature Photos of Migrants

November 11, 2019

Always seeking to stir up conversation, the United Colors of Benetton featured an ad of migrants seeking help in crossing the Mediterranean from Africa to… Read more

Activists Target UK Government Treatment of Migrants With Viral Ad Campaign

September 16, 2019

Hey @ukhomeoffice 👋. Nice new ad campaign you have today, plastered all over London Underground. Honesty is the best policy. 👌 #EndtheHostileEnvironment#WorldRefugeeDay2019#RefugeeWeek pic.twitter.com/I65Bc180GI — Our… Read more

‘A Child Is A Child’ – Unicef brings children to the fore in new migrant campaign from FCB and Rankin

September 17, 2017

FCB Inferno has become the go-to UK agency for what we might call ’cause’ advertising and now it’s launching ‘A Child Is A Child’ for… Read more

‘It symbolises a lack of integration’ Fury as anti-migration ad condemns burka in poster

September 17, 2017

Posters have appeared in railway stations around the country which feature a woman in a burka with the slogan: “Uncontrolled naturalisation? No to facilitated naturalisation”.… Read more

Norway And Belgium Become Latest Nations To Plead With Migrants To Stay At Home

September 17, 2017

Norway has taken out a front-page advertisement in a major Afghan newspaper warning would-be migrants that potential asylum seekers “will be returned by force”, while the… Read more

Norway launches anti-refugee advertising campaign

February 28, 2016

Norway’s immigration authorities have launched an advertising campaign in print and social media to deter refugees from seeking asylum in the country, following the controversial… Read more

Denmark advert in Lebanon newspapers warns off refugees

February 28, 2016

Denmark has placed advertisements in four Lebanese newspapers announcing tighter regulations and cuts in provisions for asylum seekers. The advertisement published on Monday said that… Read more

Australia Shutting a Door on Asylum

September 20, 2015

 In July of 2013, 100 asylum seekers burned their shelters down in an Australian refugee processing center on Nauru Island.  The incident drew attention to… Read more

The U.K.’s “Go Home” Campaign

September 20, 2015

  In 2013 an official probe was launched into claims that the Home Office “Go Home or Face Arrest” advertisement campaign targeting illegal immigrants is… Read more

Can Kenya Convince Somali Refugees To Head Home?

September 20, 2015

Advertising in connection with migration and refugees is not the first thing that comes to mind, but the connection goes back to the beginnings of… Read more

People smugglers using Facebook to lure migrants into ‘Italy trips’

September 20, 2015

It reads like the website of a travel agency. “A trip to Italy next week in a big fast tourist yacht,” says the Facebook post beneath… Read more

Tapping Migration Wealth to Fund Development

September 20, 2015

The global money-transfer industry makes huge profits by charging a fee to transfer money to another country as well as off of exchange rates. For… Read more

Aggressive Anti-Immigrant Messaging for Refugees Headed to Christmas Island

September 20, 2015

There is a wide-ranging effort by Australia to discourage refugees from going to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. On the shores of Indonesia, billboard… Read more

New “Going Home” Immigration Posters Shameful

September 20, 2015

The language of advertising to recruit, and more recently, to de-recruit, immigrants provides a mostly unexamined aspect of the rationales provided for why people move.… Read more