Date: 2023
Type: Contribution to book
Enter the Boogeyman : representations of human smuggling in mainstream narratives of migration
Luigi ACHILLI and David KYLE (eds), Global human smuggling : buying freedom in a retreating world, Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023, 3rd edition, pp. 325-344[Migration Policy Centre]
ACHILLI, Luigi, MASSARI, Alice, Enter the Boogeyman : representations of human smuggling in mainstream narratives of migration, in Luigi ACHILLI and David KYLE (eds), Global human smuggling : buying freedom in a retreating world, Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023, 3rd edition, pp. 325-344[Migration Policy Centre] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76463
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
The study focuses on the visual depiction of smugglers in the two main Italian newspapers between 2015 and 2016 – a key destination and transit country during the so-called migrant crisis”. What they show is that against a general hysteria about the smuggler in narratives on human and national security, the subject is rather absent at the visual level. The divergence between the narrative overrepresentation of the smugglers and their concomitant visual absence in mainstream channels of communication – the authors argue – ultimately fuels increasingly punitive migration regimes in Italy and, at large, the European Union.
Additional information:
Published online: 5 December 2023
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76463
ISBN: 9781421447520; 9781421447513
Series/Number: [Migration Policy Centre]
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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