Overview
- Connects visuality with migration governance
- Describes humanitarian representation of Syrian displacement?
- This book is available open access and free to read online
Part of the book series: IMISCOE Research Series (IMIS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Theory and Methodology of Visual Securitization
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Humanitarian Representation and Migration Governance
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Keywords
- Visual securitization
- Migration governance
- Humanitarian photography
- Humanitarian representation of Syrian displacement
- Transnational humanitarian NGOs
- Humanitarianism and politics
- Humanitarian communication
- NGOs visual communication
- Visuality of Syrian displacement
- Securitization of the refugee issue
- Humanitarian NGOs and global governance
- Visual social semiotics
- Visual analysis
- Threatening images
- Syrian people on the move’ invisibility
- Visual glimmers
- Open access
About this book
This open access book offers an innovative account of how relief organizations’ visual depiction of Syrian displacement contributes to reproduce and reinforce a securitized account of refugees. Through visual analysis, the book demonstrates how the securitization process takes place in three different ways. First of all, even if marginally, it occurs through the reproduction of mainstream media and political accounts that have depicted refugees in terms of threats. Secondly, and more consistently, through a representation of Syrian displaced people that, despite the undeniable innovative aesthetic patterns focusing on dignity and empowerment, continue to reinforce a visual narrative around refugees in terms of victimhood and passivity. The reproduction of a securitized account takes also place through the dialectic between what is made visible in the pictures and what is not. At the same time the book identifies visual glimmers and minor displacements in the humanitarian discourse that have the potentiality to produce alternative discourses on refugees and displacement beyond the mainstream securitized ones. By showing how relief organizations’ visual representation contributes to the securitization of the refugee issue, this book provides a great resource to students and academics in migration, visuality, humanitarianism and securitization, as well as social scientists and policy-makers.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Alice Massari works in the humanitarian sector since 2007 as researcher, aid worker and consultant. She holds an M.A. in International Relations and a Ph.D. in Political Science, European Politics and International Relations (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy). She is currently working as humanitarian affairs officer for UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and has worked as expert on migration for the European Commission, and as aid worker for NGOs in Africa and the Middle East. Her research and writing focus on migration, humanitarianism, visuality and securitization.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Visual Securitization
Book Subtitle: Humanitarian Representations and Migration Governance
Authors: Alice Massari
Series Title: IMISCOE Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71143-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71142-9Published: 19 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71145-0Published: 19 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71143-6Published: 18 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2364-4087
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4095
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 204
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, Public Policy, Visualization, Governance and Government