Representations of Refugees, Migrants, and Displaced People as the 'other'

Book excerpt: This book explores how 21st-century media-based discourses on migrants, refugees, and displaced people both reinforce and reconfigure existing negative stereotypes about these groups as 'other.' It is particularly pertinent considering the increasingly polarized world context and the evolving communication ecosystem with new media as privileged platforms for exclusionary narratives toward the 'outgroups' of migrants, refugees, and displaced people. The book's contributions encompass various methodologies and disciplines within communication studies, including qualitative analyses of media representations and quantitative research on public opinion. Unlike much of the existing English-language scholarship on these marginalized communities, this book de-centers North America and the UK to offer a global perspective focusing on regions such as continental and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Persian Gulf, India, China, Turkey, Russia, and Scandinavia. Rui Alexandre Novais is Professor and Researcher at the Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies (CEFH) of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Portugal). Carlos Arcila Calderón is an Associate Professor and member of the Observatory of Audiovisual Contents (OCA) of the University of Salamanca (Spain).