A different view on refugees in the media

Almost daily, we see photographs and videos of refugees in the European media. These images often unconsciously frame 'the refugee' as a victim or a threat and play into the hands of anti-migration sentiments. Cultural scholar Jeroen Boom discovered ambitious filmmakers who experiment with other, more responsible ways of portraying migration. Boom will obtain his PhD on 6 March for his research on alternative representations of refugees. A long stream of people moving through a wasteland, overcrowded refugee camps full of tents, heavily loaded rubber boats in the Mediterranean. "The European media keeps showing the same images. On the internet, on the news, in documentaries.