Visual Power, Representation and Migration Law: Framing Migrants - Hardcover

Dorota Gozdecka

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474459986 ISBN 13: 9781474459983

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2024

Synopsis

This book analyses the dominant imagery related to migration and illustrates how framing of migrants as subjects viewed through the lens of the host gaze positions them for exclusion and marginalisation. It focuses on comparative sources derived from public and media visual campaigns focusing on migration issues. It illustrates how the ethical gap that the host-centric way of looking creates results in the growing suspicion of the migrant and how this ethical gap broadens and impacts on the legal exclusion of migrants as legal subjects.

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About the Author

Dorota Anna Gozdecka is a Professor at the University of Helsinki. She specialises in topics of othering and exclusion particularly in the area of human rights, and is the author of Rights, Religious Pluralism and the Recognition of Difference: Off the Scales of Justice (2016).

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474459986
• ISBN 13: 9781474459983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192