Visual Power, Representation and Migration Law
Framing Migrants
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2024
192 pages
978-1-4744-6000-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book analyses the dominant imagery related to migration and illustrates how framing of migrants as subjects viewed through the lens of the host gaze positions them for exclusion and marginalisation. It focuses on comparative sources derived from public and media visual campaigns focusing on migration issues. It illustrates how the ethical gap that the host-centric way of looking creates results in the growing suspicion of the migrant and how this ethical gap broadens and impacts on the legal exclusion of migrants as legal subjects.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
11 black and white illustrations
File size
8,51 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-6000-2 (9781474460002)
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04/2024
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Law and the Ethics of Looking
- 1 The Migrant in Our Gaze
- Introduction
- Ethics Interrupted at the Border
- The Distinction Between Citizen, Migrant and Refugee
- Gazing at the Migrant
- Spectacle of the Border and Figures of the Migrant
- Five Archetypal Figures of the Migrant
- Conclusions
- 2 Looking, Feeling and Judging the Law
- Introduction
- Law and the Art of Visual Persuasion
- The Image of Power and the Image of Law
- Law, Justice and Legitimacy
- Law, Visibility and Legal Persons
- Archetypes and the Figures of Citizen and Migrant
- Conclusions
- Part II Figures of the Migrant
- 3 The Janus-Faced Refugee: The Interplay Between the 'Genuine' and the 'Bogus' Asylum Seeker
- Introduction
- The 'Genuine' and the 'Bogus' and Proving 'Genuineness'
- Victimhood, Suffering and the Host Gaze
- The Frames of 'Bogusness' in Comics
- The 'Authentic' Suffering of the Genuine
- Legal Responses to Bogusness and the Rising Legal Threshold of Genuineness
- Conclusions
- 4 The Spectre of the Invisible Illegal
- Introduction
- Why Illegality Often Remains Invisible
- The 'Illegal' Migrant as a Haunting Spectre
- The Hauntological Invisibility of the Migrant
- British, Australian and American Spectropolitical Imagery of the Migrant
- Out of Sight and Outside the Law
- Conclusions
- 5 The Figure of the Absolute Other
- Introduction
- Exclusion Within and Inheriting 'Migrant' Status
- Complex Forms of Racism and Visual Othering
- Swiss Visual Campaigns on Banning Minarets and Migration
- Subsequent Legal Changes
- Who 'Owns' the Right to Regulate Access to Rights?
- Conclusions
- 6 The Migrant as an Inhuman Mass
- Introduction
- The Flood and Homo Oeconomicus
- Non-human People: Viruses and Bodies Without Organs
- The Figure of the Mass in Visual Discourse
- Brexit and the EU-Turkey Agreement: Keeping the 'Mass' at Bay
- Conclusions
- 7 The Figure of the Innocent
- Introduction
- The Image of a Child and Ethics: The Puzzle of Children's Autonomy
- The Threshold of Innocence and Migrant Children
- Aylan Kurdi's Image: The Ultimate Innocent and the Challenge to Refugee Reception Laws
- Challenging the Cruelty of Existing Legal Systems
- Other Images of Migrant Children
- Conclusions
- Part III The Complicity of the Picture
- 8 The Challenge of Navigating the Ethics of Law in the Pictorial Era
- Introduction
- Can We Challenge the Broader Archetypes of Foreignness?
- Do Pictures Really Influence Viewers?
- Borders as Spaces Penalising Ethics
- Conclusions
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
