Gender, Migration and the Media
This volume brings together a number of experts who explore conceptual and policy challenges, as well as empirical realities, associated with gender and migration in highly mediated societies. The need to more systematically address the gendered experience of migration, especially in relation to political and cultural representation, is in the core of the discussions that unfold in this book. The books chapters address a number of critical questions in relation to the representation of women as members of communities and as outsiders in culturally diverse societies. In doing so, the collection pays particular attention to the sphere of media and communications. Mediated communication has become crucially important in the construction of meanings of identity and citizenship, while the media have taken centre stage in framing debates on migration, border control and gender representations in culturally diverse societies. Gender, Migration and the Media presents a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary understanding of the practices and the consequences of mediated communication for identity and citizenship.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Myria Georgiou teaches in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics (LSE), UK. Her research focuses on questions of identity construction within mediated urban and transnational spaces. Previous publications include Transnational Lives and the Media: Reimagining Diasporas (2007) and Diaspora, Identity and the Media: Diasporic Trans-nationalism and Mediated Spatialities (2006).
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Series editors: Martin Bulmer, University of Surrey, UK, and John Solomos, City University London, UK
The journal Ethnic and Racial Studies was founded in 1978 by John Stone to provide an international forum for high quality research on race, ethnicity, nationalism and ethnic conflict. At the time the study of race and ethnicity was still a relatively marginal sub-field of sociology, anthropology and political science. In the intervening period the journal has provided a space for the discussion of core theoretical issues, key developments and trends, and for the dissemination of the latest empirical research.
It is now the leading journal in its field and has helped to shape the development of scholarly research agendas. Ethnic and Racial Studies attracts submissions from scholars in a diverse range of countries, fields of scholarship and crosses disciplinary boundaries. It has moved from being a quarterly to being published monthly and it is now available in both printed and electronic form.
The Ethnic and Racial Studies book series contains a wide range of the journals special issues. These special issues are an important contribution to the work of the journal, where leading social science academics bring together articles on specific themes and issues that are linked to the broad intellectual concerns of Ethnic and Racial Studies. The series editors work closely with the guest editors of the special issues to ensure that they meet the highest quality standards possible. Through publishing these special issues as a series of books, we hope to allow a wider audience of both scholars and students from across the social science disciplines to engage with the work of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Other titles in the series include:
The Transnational Political Participation of Immigrants
Edited by Jean-Michel Lafleur and Marco Martiniello
Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism
Edited by Steven Vertovec
Migrant Politics and Mobilisation: Exclusion, Engagements, Incorporation
Edited by Davide Per and John Solomos
New Racial Missions of Policing: International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics
Edited by Paul Amar
Young People, Ethnicity and Social Capital
Edited by Tracey Reynolds
Cosmopolitan Sociability
Edited by Tsypylma Darieva, Nina Glick Schiller and Sandra Gruner-Domic
Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Century
Edited by Charles A. Gallagher and France Winddance Twine
Theorising Integration and Assimilation
Edited by Jens Schneider and Maurice Crul
Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Asia: Inclusion or Exclusion?
Edited by Michelle Ann Miller
Diasporas, Cultures and Identities
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Gender, Race and Religion: Intersections and Challenges
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Latino Identity in Contemporary America
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Migration: Policies, Practices, Activism
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Nationalism and National Identities
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Methods and Contexts in the Study of Muslim Minorities: Visible and Invisible Muslims
Edited by Nadia Jeldtoft and Jrgen S. Nielsen
Irregular Migrants: Policy, Politics, Motives and Everyday Lives
Edited by Alice Bloch and Milena Chimienti
Fighting Discrimination in Europe: The Case for a Race-Conscious Approach
Edited by Mathias Mschel, Costanza Hermanin and Michele Grigolo
Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Michele Lamont and Nissim Mizrachi
Health Care and Immigration: Understanding the Connections
Edited by Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and Alejandro Portes
Gender, Migration and the Media
Edited by Myria Georgiou
Accounting for Ethnic and Racial Diversity: The Challenge of Enumeration
Edited by Patrick Simon and Victor Pich
Methodologies on the Move: The Transnational Turn in Empirical Migration Research
Edited by Anna Amelina, Thomas Faist and Devrimsel D. Nergiz
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