By Pramod K Nayar* How do refugees feature in contemporary rhetoric? In the face of suffering the only way to keep borders closed, as Europe is beginning to discover, is to turn one’s face away. The appeal constituted by the recent photograph of a drowned toddler functions as a counter to the dystopian imaginary that […]
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The Drowned and the Saved
Radhika M. Chakraborty on September 21st, 2015
Posted in Refugees 
Tags: drowned toddler, dystopia, iconography, migrant, migrant crisis, photgraph, refugee, Syria, utopia 
No Comments »Travelling terms: The semantics of migration discourse
Radhika M. Chakraborty on September 3rd, 2015
The world has been forced to take notice of the plight of migrants stranded in the Mediterranean and Andaman Seas. Al Jazeera recently announced its decision to stop using the word ‘migrant’ in its reportage of the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean. They insist that “The umbrella term migrant is no longer fit for […]
Posted in Migrant Rights Tags: Al Jazeera, European migration, migrant, migrant crisis, refugee, xenophobia No Comments »
