Visual Power, Representation and Migration Law, 9781474459990
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Migrant images: power, exclusion, and the legal gaze.
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Visual Power, Representation and Migration Law

framing migrants

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    192 pages

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    8 April 2026

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Summary

Through the Host Gaze: Visual Power, Representation, and the Law of Migration

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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781474459990
ISBN-10:1474459994
Author:Dorota Gozdecka
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:Edinburgh University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:8 April 2026
Weight:0g
Dimensions:234mm x 156mm
About The Author

Dorota Gozdecka

Dorota Anna Gozdecka is a Professor at the University of Helsinki. She specialises in topics of othering and exclusion particularly in the area of human rights, and is the author of Rights, Religious Pluralism and the Recognition of Difference: Off the Scales of Justice (2016).

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