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U.S. Media and Migration: Refugee Oral Histories

U.S. Media and Migration: Refugee Oral Histories

Hardcover

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 1138947466
ISBN13: 9781138947467
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 21 2015
Pages: 222
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Using oral history, ethnography, and close readings of media texts, Sarah C. Bishop probes the myriad and sometimes conflicting ways refugees interpret and use mediated representations of life in America. Guided by seventy-four different narrators from Bhutan, Burma, Iraq and Somalia, US Media and Migration explores answers to questions such as: What does one learn from media about an unfamiliar place? How does media help or hinder refugees' sense of belonging after relocation? And, how does the US government use media to shape refugees' understanding of American norms, standards, and ideals? Through interviews with both refugees and resettlement administrators, Bishop provides a compelling and layered analysis of the interaction between refugees and US media before, during, and long after resettlement.

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