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  • A line of Syrian refugees crossing the border of Hungary and Austria on their way to Germany. Hungary, Central Europe, 6 September 2015.

    Binary Narratives of Migration Crisis in the Hungarian News Media: Making Distinction between ‘Us’ and ‘Them’

    Posted on September 19, 2017

    Since the beginning of 2015 when a considerable number of people have started pouring into the European Union– what will be later labeled as the start of the Europe`s migrant crisis- numerous European media agencies were not ready for reporting such events. Because of the overall unpreparedness and in some cases, governmental tighter control, media […]

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    The Visegrád Four: a new European centre of power?

    Posted on September 15, 2017

    The events of the so-called refugee crisis of 2015 undeniably had a severe impact on the European Union and its member states. While Germany, Austria and Sweden took the spotlight as the main destination countries, the flow of migrants that year passed through several other European countries, especially in Central and South-Eastern Europe, leaving marks […]

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    The representation of (Syrian refugees and other) Immigrants in Turkish Media

    Posted on July 5, 2017

    While talking about migrant in Turkey (most of them Syrian refugees) we can notice that there are two kinds of perspectives which reflect two different ideologies or parties. The first one is the representation of immigrants from the pro-governmental media and the other one is from the opposition media. The first one is characterized by […]

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    World of Asylum Seekers and its Image in Media Coverage: Boundaries and Discourses

    Posted on July 3, 2017

    The paper I am presenting today is part of my Ph.D. research devoted to asylum seekers in Bulgaria.  My thesis is in the field of social anthropology but I use the multidisciplinary methodology and theory concepts.  The focus of presentation today is asylum seekers and their image in media coverage in Bulgaria. The main research […]

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    Burden on Society and Economy: the Profile of contemporary Refugees and Migrants

    Posted on July 3, 2017

    Contemporary Europe faces multilayered problems which are of a wicked character and seem non-solvable (Ysa et al 2014). Raising spatial inequalities, environmental demands, security threats, populist movements, democracy crisis and the like have pushed members of the general public and policy makers to almost blame migrants or refugees for this challenging situation. Media portray refugees […]

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    The Communication Revolution: Addressing New Media’s Roles in transforming Journalism in the face of Refugees and Migrants Crisis of the South-East Europe and Central Europe Region

    Posted on July 3, 2017

    The failure of the conventional media to report objectively on the global migration and refugee crisis is calling for a reexamination of not only the role that the media plays in safeguarding the society but also how journalists could easily fall prey to the “propaganda traps” set by politicians furthering right-wing populist ideologies. What appears […]

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  • Illegal migrants walk near  the railway crossing at the border between Hungary and Serbia near Roszke, 180 km southeast from Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2015.  (Sandor Ujvari/MTI via AP)

    Comparative Analysis of Refugees Coming from the Balkan and the Middle East from a Legal, Еconomic and Мoral Viewpoint

    Posted on June 30, 2017

    The sole fact that thousands of refugees are being accepted to the EU without any border check in 2014 and 2015 caused the initial frustration of citizens in Macedonia, Serbia and Kosovo*. All these countries need endless paperwork in order to acquire a work permit in EU. On the top of this Kosovo* inhabitants can not […]

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    Challenges of Increasing Refugee Crisis Awareness in Online Social Networks among Young People : Case of Albania

    Posted on May 22, 2017

    Figures of refugee crisis have set off an alarm of humanitarian crisis. Albania is a country in the crossroad between Middle East and Western Europe. Refugee crisis is reality that it is not so distant from Albania. Young people lack of civic engagement initiative especially in social media platforms. They are digital born and open […]

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    The Refugees in a Broken Mirror of Fear

    Posted on May 12, 2017

    Legal Definition of refugee: ‘an individual who has left his or her native country and is unwilling or unable to return to it because of persecution or fear of persecution (as because of race, religion, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion) Status of Refugees Convention, 1951 2016 was a record year in […]

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    The Evolution of a Pro-Refugee Volunteer Campaign in Slovakia

    Posted on April 27, 2017

    The Slovak Initiative Who will help? is almost 2 years old and since its inception in April 2015 it has managed to transform from a 100% volunteer led campaign to a professional organisation with a sole aim: to facilitate refugee integration in Slovakia. Hoping to preserve the spirit of its “grassroots” nature, it set its […]

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