Xenophobia in the Media (Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics)

Through its global and critical perspectives, this book brings together knowledge, ideas and tools to understand the problems and identify effective solutions, best practices and alternative approaches to combat xenophobia in the media and build tolerance and social cohesion.

Although various studies have been conducted on the extent to which the media construct xenophobic discourse against immigrants and refugees and how they represent immigrants, there exists a research lacuna as to the dynamics of the xenophobia construction in the media; the effect of xenophobic discourse of the media and its function; the nexus between xenophobia construction of the media and the social, economic and political conditions; and the impact of the xenophobic discourse of the media on immigrants and host communities. This book adds knowledge and empirical evidence to fill this research gap.

This book will be an important resource for journalists, scholars and students of media and communication studies, journalism, political science, sociology and anyone covering issues of race and racism, human rights, immigration and refugees.

Senthan Selvarajah is a co-director at the Centre for Media, Human Rights and Peacebuilding, UK; CEO at the Gate Foundation, UK; and a PhD supervisor for Unicaf University students.

Nesrin Kenar is an associate professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Sakarya University, Turkey, and a co-director of the Centre for Media, Human Rights and Peacebuilding, UK. She was the former vice dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences at Sakarya University.

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw is the chairman/information commissioner of Right to Access Information Commission; the coordinator of the Graduate Program at the Faculty of Communication, Media, and Information Studies, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone; and a co-director at the Centre for Media, Human Rights and Peacebuilding, UK.

Pradeep Dhakal is a co-director at the Centre for Media, Human Rights and Peacebuilding, UK; and a director of Chetanalaya Institute, Nepal. Before that, he was a lecturer at Tribhuvan University, Nepal.