Visual Power, Representation and Migration Law: Framing Migrants

Author: Dorota Gozdecka
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474459990

Published In: December 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781474459983

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Interrogates how the images of migrants and refugees effect the legitimacy of legal changes in the area of migration law

Analyses the relationship between typical depictions of migrants and affective response of the viewers to these images
Examines 5 selected archetypal migrant figures: the ‘genuine’ and ‘bogus’ asylum seeker, the mass, the invisible illegal, the other and the innocent
Examines the relationship between legal interpretation, decision making and policy making
Compares perspectives from Australia, Europe and the USA
Includes 10 illustrations used by sources such as the Australian Government, electoral campaigns and major news sources

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.

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