Description
Book SynopsisMedia practices and the everyday cultures of transnational migrants are deeply interconnected. Mediating Migration narrates aspects of the migrant experience as shaped by the technologies of communication and the social, political and cultural configurations of neoliberal globalization.
Trade Review"
Mediating Migration takes a complicated and difficult subject and offers an original and sophisticated interrogation of the ways contemporary media, in all its dimensions, represents, constructs, and interrogates the experiences of and responses to migration."
Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina"In this marvelous and insightful book, Radha Hegde unpacks and then reassembles the relationship between globalization, media, and migration. While many have noted that these key concepts cannot be understood in isolation from each other, in this book we get inside the materiality of the migrant condition as it is constituted by the interplay of global forces and mediated networks. We learn not only how the media shapes popular understanding and policies on migration, but also how migrants produce new mediascapes."
Nikos Papastergiadis, The University of MelbourneTable of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Legitimacy: Accumulating Status
3. Recognition: Politics and Technologies
4. Publics: Eyeing Gender
5. Domesticity: Digital Visions and Versions
6. Authenticity: Pursuits of Auras
7. Conclusion: Destinations and Beginnings
Notes
References
Index
