Hopes of hospitality: Media, refugee crisis and the politics of a place
Hopes of hospitality: Media, refugee crisis and the politics of a place
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热情好客的希望：媒体、难民危机和地方政治
DOI：
10.1177/1367877914530314
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Kaarina Nikunen
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作者：
Kaarina Nikunen
本文探讨了地中海沿岸难民政治中地理想象的相关性。它是根据在意大利南部卡拉布里亚的一个小村庄进行的实证研究得出的，该村庄于1997年决定收容300多名在其海岸失事的难民。通过欢迎难民，巴多拉托村利用好客的政治，为这个遭受高失业率和人口老龄化的村庄获得新的文化和经济价值。这个故事，因为它是特殊的，很快吸引了国际媒体报道巴多拉托的故事。本文描述了14年来该村的发展情况，并展示了媒体宣传在这一过程中的力量和变化。它指出了媒体对地理想象过程的相关性以及这一过程的矛盾和复杂的含义。
The article investigates the relevance of geographical imagination in refugee politics in the Mediterranean coast. It is based on empirical research conducted in Calabria, southern Italy, in a small village that in 1997 decided to host over 300 refugees that shipwrecked on its coast. By welcoming refugees the village, Badolato, appropriated politics of hospitality to gain new cultural and economic value for the village that was suffering from high unemployment rates and an ageing population. The story, exceptional as it was, soon attracted international media to cover the story of Badolato. The article depicts developments in the village over the course of 14 years and shows the force and changes over time of media publicity in the process. It points out the relevance of media for the process of geographical imagination and the contradictory and complex implications of the process.