Visual Power, Representation and Migration Law: Framing Migrants

by Dorota Gozdecka

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474459990
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	12/31/2025
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Dorota Anna Gozdecka is a Professor at the University of Helsinki. She specialises in topics of othering and exclusion particularly in the area of human rights, and is the author of Rights, Religious Pluralism and the Recognition of Difference: Off the Scales of Justice (2016).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: LAW AND THE ETHICS OF LOOKING

Chapter 1: The migrant in our gaze

Chapter 2: Looking, feeling, and judging the law

PART II: FIGURES OF THE MIGRANT

Chapter 3: The figures of a ‘genuine’ refugee and a ‘bogus’ asylum seeker.

Chapter 4: The spectre of the invisible illegal.

Chapter 5: The figure of the absolute other

Chapter 6: The migrant as an inhuman mass

Chapter 7

PART III: THE COMPLICITY OF THE PICTURE

Chapter 8: The challenge of navigating the ethics of law in the pictorial era

Conclusions

Bibliography