The European refugee crisis received heightened attention at the beginning of September
2015, when images of the drowned child, Aylan Kurdi, surfaced across mainstream and …

The mass exodus of millions of Syrians from their country due to worsening war conditions
has become a serious global humanitarian crisis. As the number of displaced refugees rises …

This study analyzes social media representations of refugees in Turkey and discusses their
role in shaping public opinion. The influx of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey has created …

Europe has always been a continent of migration, but the numbers of refugees who entered
the European Union reached an all-time high in 2015 and 2016 and have remained …

This article describes a method for early detection of disaster-related damage to cultural
heritage. It is based on data from social media, a timely and large-scale data source that is …

Abstract The images of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old who drowned in the Aegean Sea in
2015, and Omran Daqneesh, a five-year-old covered in dust and blood waiting shell …

In this article, the authors analyse the news photojournalism of the 2015 European migration
'crisis' as a political encounter between western publics and arriving migrants, where the …

This open access book explores the use of visual methods in migration studies through a
combination of theoretical analyses and empirical studies. The first section looks at how …

Compassion-evoking and widely circulated news images seem capable of affecting public
opinion and change history. A case in point is the picture of the drowned toddler Alan Kurdi …

This article argues that the notion of 'illegality'has become a dominant aspect in social work
practice for those who are subject to immigration control and have no recourse to public …