Dear EPSA colleagues, The Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is organising this one-day event on Europe's migrations in policy and discourse: (EUROPE’S) MIGRATIONS AND THE MEDIA Department of Media and Communications London School of Economics and Political Science Tuesday, 21 June 2022, 10am-5pm To attend in person, register here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/347263373097> / to attend online, register here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/349436974397> This one-day seminar explores political and media discourses of forced migration in Europe in the contexts of the war in Ukraine and the earlier ‘refugee crisis.’ Anti-refugee and anti-immigration discourses were politically effective during the so-called ‘migration crisis’ of 2015. The collective production of culturally prejudiced knowledge constructed refugees as a ‘threat’ and turned them into Europe’s ‘enemy.’ It drew on discursive patterns of Islamophobia, Euro-scepticism, anti-globalisation, racism and discrimination. The discourse of threat has been largely absent from the coverage of the war in Ukraine and its refugees. For the Bulgarian Prime Minister, Ukrainian refugees are ‘not the usual refugee wave of people<https://ec.europa.eu/migrant-integration/news/bulgaria-takes-first-steps-welcome-those-fleeing-ukraine_en> with an unclear past. None of the European countries is worried about them’. Why are Europeans worried at times, yet welcome refugees on other occasions? What is driving European attitudes to forced migration? What is the role of media in the production of knowledge on migration? This seminar brings together researchers and practitioners to explore political and media constructions of migrants and refugees, past and present, to engage with questions: * How are migrants & refugees constructed by word and image? * What are the new lines of inclusions and exclusions in Europe’s migration policy, discourse and practice? What purpose does this discourse serve? * What’s driving Europe’s politics of borders? How are borders narrated and justified? * How do migrants & refugees use media to communicate themselves? THE SEMINAR IS ORGANISED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH: LSE Media, Collegium Civitas, NAWA, POLIS THE SEMINAR IS FINANCED BY: Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) Project No.: PPI/APM/2018/1/00019 PROGRAMME PANEL 1 (10:00-11:30): The real and mediated lives of refugees The communicative architecture of the wartime border: Control, hope and solidarity; Myria Georgiou, London School of Economics, UK & Marek Troszyński, Collegium Civitas, Poland Smartphones as personal digital archives? Recentring migrant authority as curating and storytelling subjects; Koen Leurs, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Images of Ukrainian refugees in Ukraine: statuses, interpretations, values; Anna Taschenko and Ludmila Iuzva, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine PANEL 2 (12:00-13:00) Europe’s dangerous borders: an academic perspective The colour line and the externalization of borders; Pierluigi Musaro, University of Bologna The forgotten asylum seekers at the Polish-Belarussian border; Magda El-Ghamari, Collegium Civitas PANEL 3 (13:30-15:00): Europe’s dangerous borders: through the eyes of practitioners Refugees and people on the move: health needs; Dr Apostolos Veizis, Executive Director INTERSOS, Greece Two borders, two standards of refugee protection in Poland. Experience in organizing humanitarian aid; Anna Dabrowska, Director, Homo Faber, Warsaw From Criminalising Asylum Seekers to Expulsions to Rwanda: The UK’s Externalisation and Anti-Refugee Policies; Dr Emilie McDonnell, UK Advocacy Coordinator, Human Rights Watch. PANEL 4 (15:50-17:00) Media and the construction of cultural borders A Great Divide: Polish media discourse on migration; Marek Troszyński & Magdalena El-Ghamari, Collegium Civitas, Poland Albanian media discourse on three refugee crises: Syria, Afghanistan, and Ukraine in comparative perspective; Elona Dhëmbo & Erka Çaro, University of Tirana, Albania Migration trends in Kosovo: the rising brain drain phenomena; Labinot Hajdari & Judita Krasniqi; Kosovo Center of Diplomacy, Kosovo Racism and historical amnesia in the British media coverage of migration; Eva Polonska, LSE -- Dr Eva Polonska-Kimunguyi Department of Media and Communications Department of Government London School of Economics and Political Science Room FAW2.7.01|Houghton Street | London WC2A 2AE