@article{1431053,
      recid = {1431053},
      author = {Massari, Alice,},
      title = {Visual securitization : humanitarian representations and  migration governance /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {This open access book offers an innovative account of how  relief organizations' visual depiction of Syrian  displacement contributes to reproduce and reinforce a  securitized account of refugees. Through visual analysis,  the book demonstrates how the securitization process takes  place in three different ways. First of all, even if  marginally, it occurs through the reproduction of  mainstream media and political accounts that have depicted  refugees in terms of threats. Secondly, and more  consistently, through a representation of Syrian displaced  people that, despite the undeniable innovative aesthetic  patterns focusing on dignity and empowerment, continue to  reinforce a visual narrative around refugees in terms of  victimhood and passivity. The reproduction of a securitized  account takes also place through the dialectic between what  is made visible in the pictures and what is not. At the  same time the book identifies visual glimmers and minor  displacements in the humanitarian discourse that have the  potentiality to produce alternative discourses on refugees  and displacement beyond the mainstream securitized ones. By  showing how relief organizations' visual representation  contributes to the securitization of the refugee issue,  this book provides a great resource to students and  academics in migration, visuality, humanitarianism and  securitization, as well as social scientists and  policy-makers.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1431053},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71143-6},
}