The Routledge Companion to Migration, Communication, and Politics

The Routledge Companion to Migration, Communication and Politics brings together academics from numerous disciplines to show the legal, political, communicative, theoretical, methodological, and media implications of migration. The collection makes the compelling case that migration does not occur in a vacuum; rather, it is driven by and reacts to various factors, including the political, economic, and cultural worlds in which individuals live.

The 25 chapters reveal the complex nature of migration from various angles, not only looking at how policy affects migrants but also how individuals and marginalized groups are impacted by such acts. In Part I contributors examine migration law, debating the role of the state in managing migration flows and investigating existing migration policy. Part II offers theories and methods that integrate communication studies, political science, and law into the study of migration, including cultural fusion theory and Gebserian theory. Part III looks at how contemporary perceptions of migration and migrants intersect with media representations across media outlets worldwide. Finally, Part IV offers case studies that present the intricacies of migration within different cultural, national, and political groups.

Migration is the key political, economic, and cultural issue of our time and this companion takes the next step in the debate; namely, the effects of the how, in addition to the how and why. Researchers and students of communication, politics, media, and law will find this an invaluable intervention.

Introduction Section I: Migration Law 1. Emigration Law: Does it Still Make Sense? Some short historical and legal reflections 2. Current Challenges of the International Protection of Refugees and Other Migrants: The Role and Developments of the United Nations 2016 Summit3. Quo Vadis? The European Union’s Migration and Asylum Policy:Legal basis, Legal Challenges and Legal Possibilities 4. The Politics of Internally Displaced Persons 5. Refuge and Political Asylum and Latin America: Relevance, characteristics, and normative structure Section II: Migration Theories and Methods 6. Method Issues and Working with Newly Arrived Women Refugees 7. Cultural Fusion: An Alternative to Assimilation 8. Gebserian Theory and Method 9. Immigrant Migration and Communication Apprehension 10. Reconstructing the migration communication discourse: The call for contextual and narrative-based evidence in the deconstruction of fear 11. Third-Culture Individuals Section III: The Media and Migration 12. Migration and migrants in and to Europe: Reviewing media studies of the past decade (2001-2016) 13. Migration from Central Asia: Thematic Analysis of Kyrgyz and Russian Language Online News Media 14. Kurdish Media and Immigration Policies in the Kurdistan Regional Government: Refugee Crisis of 2015 15. Linguistic Analysis of "Immigrant" as Represented in Russian Media: Cultural Semantics 16. Applications of Music for Migrants Section IV: Case Studies on Migration 17. Patterns of political transnationalism in a non-traditional diaspora: The case of Swiss Citizens in Latin America 18. Nicaraguan immigration to Costa Rica: Understanding power and race through language 19. Individual and contextual explanations of attitudes towards immigration 20. The Politics around Romani Migration: European and National Perspectives 21. Exploring the relationship between acculturation preferences, threat, intergroup contact, and prejudice towards immigrants in Finland 22. (Re)framing cultural intelligence in organizations: Migration, negotiation and meaning making of female migrants of North East India 23. Return Migration: Reentry Acculturative Experiences of Chinese Returnees from Australian and New Zealand Higher Education Institutions 24. Communication with non-host-nationals in migration: The case of sojourning students from the United States and China 25. Internal Migrants and their Left-Behind Families in China

Stephen M. Croucher is Professor and Head of the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing at Massey University, New Zealand. He researches migration, religion and conflict. He has authored 10 books, numerous book chapters and more than 100 journal articles.

João R. Caetano is Professor of Law and Political Science at Aberta University, Portugal and Pro Rector for International Advancement and Legal Affairs. He researches migration, citizenship and European issues. He has authored more than 100 articles, book chapters and books in several languages.

Elsa A. Campbell is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland and coordinator of the VIBRAC Skille-Lehikoinen Centre for Vibroacoustic Therapy and Research. Her research focuses on the use of music and sound vibration in medical rehabilitation settings.