Border Gates, Barbed Wires, Roads, Camps and Children: Refugee as a Victim and an Exception
The event referred as The Refugee Crisis after 2015, the year that the European countries confronted with a huge migration wave, is rather a crisis of modernity. In this paper, the discourse created by the images most frequently used in media all over the world when depicting this crisis is examined...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Marmara University
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Marmara İletişim Dergisi |
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| Online Access: | http://dergipark.gov.tr/download/article-file/219485 |
| Summary: | The event referred as The Refugee Crisis after 2015, the year that the European countries confronted with a huge migration wave, is rather a crisis of modernity. In this paper, the discourse created by the images most frequently used in media all over the world when depicting this crisis is examined; issues such as belonging, border, nation-state, home and homelessness, self and the other, freedom and confinement, history and ethics are discussed; and whether these images create the grounds for the viewers to attain a critical position towards this crisis as a crisis of modernity is discussed. It is concluded that these images help solve this crisis on behalf of modernity by representing this event as an exception of modernity rather than a consequence of it, reproducing the colonialist discourse.
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| ISSN: | 1300-4050 2529-0053 |