74 Refugees: Bhutan, Burma, Iraq, and Somalia…
Using oral history, ethnography, and close readings of media, author Sarah Bishop probes the myriad and sometimes conflicting ways in which refugees interpret and use mediated representations of life in the United States. Guided by 74 refugee narrators from Bhutan, Burma, Iraq, and Somalia, U.S. Media and Migration: Refugee Oral Histories explores answers to questions such as:
What does one learn from the media about an unfamiliar place?
How do the media help or hinder refugees' sense of belonging after relocation?
How does the U.S. government use media to shape refugees' understanding of American norms?
With insights from refugees and resettlement administrators throughout, Bishop provides a compelling and layered analysis of the interaction between refugees and United States media before, during, and long after resettlement. Importantly, it also forefronts the voices of the refugees themselves, while offering a nuanced, and well-thought out analysis of the role of communication, culture, and imagination in one of the most significant processes at work in today’s global context: the complex and multi-varied encounter between migrants’ expectations of their life in the West, and the West’s assumption of what they are and what they are supposed to turn into.
As the world watches with incredulity, shaming the harrowing experiences of the latest wave of refugees, while the national governments do little to respond humanely, U.S. Media and Migration: Refugee Oral Histories is a timely work that provides an original, and insightful analysis of refugee media use, and its influence upon ones understanding of American standards and ideals.
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