This book explores how the public problem of the Ukrainian refugees is constructed in political and media discourses, by looking into the public debates, strategic narratives and practices circulated with reference to this crisis. Taking into consideration the particularities of Central and Eastern European societies, the authors analyse how the Ukrainian refugee crisis has reconfigured attitudes and discourses about migrants, identities and shared history and culture. The contributions share a thematic interest and are methodologically similar, while at the same time reflecting researchers distinctive interests and unique outlooks from their respective cultures. Classical approaches and analytical angles from migration and media studies are complemented with approaches stemming from the sociology of public problems, cultural studies, political psychology, and public diplomacy, broadening the methodological landscape of the field. At the same time, given the geographical, cultural and metaphorical closeness of the authors to their object of study, the book is uniquely positioned to launch problematizations on the validity of concepts and analytical stances employed in the analysis of the Ukrainian refugee crisis.

Autorentext

Malina Ciocea is currently Ad Interim Director, PhD School, SNSPA and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Communication and Public Relations, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), Bucharest (Romania). She is the coordinator of the CoDiPo (Communication, Discourse, Public Problems) Laboratory, Center for Research in Communication at SNSPA. She is habilitated in Communication Sciences and affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School of SNSPA. Malina Ciocea has coordinated and participated in research grants covering the topics of the Romanian diaspora in media and political discourse, public problems and media debates in the Romanian public sphere, identity and memory studies. She has published extensively on these topics.

Inhalt

The coverage of the Ukrainian refugee crisis in the Romanian media: dominant themes and narratives.- Media representations of the Ukrainian refugee s everyday life in the host country.- Discursive practices in the Romanian online press.- The rise and fall of Romania s solidarity with Ukrainian refugees: A thematic analysis of media reporting on grassroots and civic society mobilization.- Hierarchies of othering: Public discourses about Ukrainian refugees and immigrants in Romania.- Muses should talk: media as a cultural instrument for crisis response.- Ukrainian refugees as a new target of Russian disinformation.- Conclusions.