@article{959061,
      recid = {959061},
      author = {Moyo, Dumisani, and Mpofu, Shepherd,},
      title = {Mediating xenophobia in Africa : unpacking discourses of  migration, belonging and othering /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {Communal conflict continually reminds us why humans seek  communal solidarity and should fear it. As this volumes  authors demonstrate, the names and terms we use carry moral  value about deservingness, about hospitality, and about  rights to space and resources. This book offers distinct  insights that explain the dynamic dangers of exclusion. The  book deserves particular credit for deploying a remarkable  collection of scholars and practitioners to surface these  themes. While many will not yet be known to the global  academy, their contributions suggest they should be--Loren  B. Landau, Professor, University of Oxford, UK and  University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Moyo and  Mpofu have successfully assembled a stellar group of  academics to explore the complex and indeed opaque subject  of xenophobia. The result is a brilliant and enlightening  volume that expands the canvas of perspectives and advances  frontiers of knowledge. I have nothing but praise for this  important volume--Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor and  Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South, University of  Bayreuth, Germany. This book brings together contributions  that analyse different ways in which migration and  xenophobia have been mediated in both mainstream and social  media in Africa and the meanings of these different  mediation practices across the continent. It is premised on  the assumption that the media play an important role in  mediating the complex intersection between migration,  identity, belonging, and xenophobia (or what others have  called Afrophobia), through framing stories in ways that  either buttress stereotyping and Othering, or challenge the  perceptions and representations that fuel the violence  inflicted on so-called foreign nationals. The book deals  with different expressions of xenophobic violence,  including both physical and emotional violence, that target  the foreign Other in different African countries. Dumisani  Moyo is Associate Professor of Communication and Vice Dean,  Academic at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.  Shepherd Mpofu (PhD) is Senior Lecturer at the University  of Limpopo, South Africa.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/959061},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61236-8},
}