A Marxist Analysis of Key Media Representations of the Migrant Crisis in Serbian Media
A Marxist Analysis of Key Media Representations of the Migrant Crisis in Serbian Media

Summary/Abstract: This work aims to question the main contradictions of the migrant crisis by mediacoverage. The sheer amount of images and discourses produced to service the everyday politicaljargons is met by a Marxist critique of the political economy behind the mass displacement.Close attention is given to the economic and geopolitical conjunctures that preceded theevents of 2015 and the earlier history of labor power allocation. This lays the groundwork fora more specific context, i.e. the role of the Balkans in this crisis and the ideology of its media.The problems dealt with are: the coining of the term “The Balkan Route”, the economic andpolitical conjuncture that determines the contemporary Serbian media sphere and the severalkey representations of the migrant crisis, primarily in social and news media. The conclusionsummarizes the main points of the article. Critical assessments are made on potential fieldresearch possibilities that could further strengthen the arguments developed in the course ofthe text.

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