Border Gates, Barbed Wires, Roads, Camps and Children: Refugee as a Victim and an Exception

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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Main Author: Gönül Eda Özgül
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Marmara University 2016-11-01
Series:Marmara İletişim Dergisi
Subjects:
Refugee
Modernity
Exception
The Other
Colonialism
Online Access:http://dergipark.gov.tr/download/article-file/219485
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spelling doaj-8f78db4a1f904f59af21eb562e6f57a52020-11-25T02:27:43ZengMarmara UniversityMarmara İletişim Dergisi1300-40502529-00532016-11-012511610.17829/midr.20162520714Border Gates, Barbed Wires, Roads, Camps and Children: Refugee as a Victim and an ExceptionGönül Eda ÖzgülThe 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. http://dergipark.gov.tr/download/article-file/219485RefugeeModernityExceptionThe OtherColonialism
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Border Gates, Barbed Wires, Roads, Camps and Children: Refugee as a Victim and an Exception
Marmara İletişim Dergisi
Refugee
Modernity
Exception
The Other
Colonialism
author_facet Gönül Eda Özgül
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title Border Gates, Barbed Wires, Roads, Camps and Children: Refugee as a Victim and an Exception
title_short Border Gates, Barbed Wires, Roads, Camps and Children: Refugee as a Victim and an Exception
title_full Border Gates, Barbed Wires, Roads, Camps and Children: Refugee as a Victim and an Exception
title_fullStr Border Gates, Barbed Wires, Roads, Camps and Children: Refugee as a Victim and an Exception
title_full_unstemmed Border Gates, Barbed Wires, Roads, Camps and Children: Refugee as a Victim and an Exception
title_sort border gates, barbed wires, roads, camps and children: refugee as a victim and an exception
publisher Marmara University
series Marmara İletişim Dergisi
issn 1300-4050
2529-0053
publishDate 2016-11-01
description 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.
topic Refugee
Modernity
Exception
The Other
Colonialism
url http://dergipark.gov.tr/download/article-file/219485
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