Visual Border Politics

Images and Migration Governance in Europe
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-81889-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Interventions

The book highlights how images shape Europe’s migration policies, using the pivotal 2015 ‘refugee crisis’ as a lens to examine the complex intersection of visual media and border governance.

Understanding visual border politics as situated practices of meaning-making that operate against the background of a structured visual order, it presents a critical framework that combines analyses of policy discourse and visual media discourse. Drawing on a broad sample of policy documents, a large visual dataset, and media analysis, the book adds complexity to existing analyses of visual politics in the context of migration. It shows that visual border politics do not operate in straightforward ways but are instead contextually bound. Whether images can be mobilized to legitimate policies depends on a number of factors, such as current and previous policies, the discursive climate, domestic developments, collective visual memories, and constitutions of collective identities.

Drawing on insights from Critical Migration and Border Studies, Critical Security Studies, Visual International Relations, Visual Culture Studies, and Memory Studies, this volume will be of interest for multiple disciplines, including International Relations, Politics, Sociology, Anthropology, European Studies, Cultural Studies, Media and Communication Studies, History, Geography, and International Law.

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Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holderied, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Images, borders, and their politics 2 Analyzing visual border politics 3 Mobilizing ‘Alan Kurdi’ in pre-Brexit Britain 4 Mobilizing images of welcome culture and Holocaust postmemory in Germany 5 Images and doing border in the German media discourse Conclusion Index

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Holderied is Senior Research Associate at Giessen University (Germany) in the Research Group “Human Rights Discourse in Migration Societies”. Laura’s research interests are in European migration and border politics, visual international politics, and conflicts about inclusion/exclusion, rights, and political community in migration societies. She has published on the role of visual discourses in migration and border governance, the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ 2015, the politics of images and rights in migration-related conflicts, and visual methodologies.