Visual Power, Representation and Migration Law: Framing Migrants

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Dorota Gozdecka (Professor at the University of Helsinki, University of Helsinki)

Visual Power, Representation and Migration Law

Framing Migrants

Dorota Gozdecka (Professor at the University of Helsinki, University of Helsinki)

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English

Edinburgh University Press
31 December 2025

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 growing suspicion of the migrant and how this ethical gap broadens and impacts on the legal exclusion of migrants as legal subjects.

By: Dorota Gozdecka (Professor at the University of Helsinki University of Helsinki)
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781474459990
ISBN 10: 1474459994
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 31 December 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: LAW AND THE ETHICS OF LOOKING Chapter 1: The migrant in our gaze Chapter 2: Looking, feeling, and judging the law PART II: FIGURES OF THE MIGRANT Chapter 3: The figures of a ‘genuine’ refugee and a ‘bogus’ asylum seeker. Chapter 4: The spectre of the invisible illegal. Chapter 5: The figure of the absolute other Chapter 6: The migrant as an inhuman mass Chapter 7 PART III: THE COMPLICITY OF THE PICTURE Chapter 8: The challenge of navigating the ethics of law in the pictorial era Conclusions Bibliography

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).