Towards a Marxist Political Economy Critique of Migration and the Media
The global outbreak of COVID-19 has exposed varied ways that systemic inequality shapes people’s lives. This article pays particular attention to migrant populations. While mainstream media and political discourse tend to construct migration as a problem to be addressed or even the cause of social p...
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Paderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research Group
2020-12-01
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| description | The global outbreak of COVID-19 has exposed varied ways that systemic inequality shapes people’s lives. This article pays particular attention to migrant populations. While mainstream media and political discourse tend to construct migration as a problem to be addressed or even the cause of social problems, the article contends that migration should be understood as an immanent part of capitalist uneven development, entwined with patriarchy and colonialism. The post-modern approach within media and communication scholarship on migration fails to challenge media’s constitutive role in patriarchal and racial capitalism which fundamentally shapes the process and consequences of migration. Drawing from a Marxist political economic perspective, I analyse the two cases of global transnational migration and internal migration in China and argue that media and communication studies should account for material disparity and class divisions among migrant groups and look for transformative force against unequal power structures. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8c3f26a28c5b469d9ee515d07bf7e8742023-06-02T00:12:34ZengPaderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research GrouptripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique1726-670X1726-670X2020-12-0119123124510.31269/triplec.v19i1.12061206Towards a Marxist Political Economy Critique of Migration and the MediaSiyuan Yin0Simon Fraser UniversityThe global outbreak of COVID-19 has exposed varied ways that systemic inequality shapes people’s lives. This article pays particular attention to migrant populations. While mainstream media and political discourse tend to construct migration as a problem to be addressed or even the cause of social problems, the article contends that migration should be understood as an immanent part of capitalist uneven development, entwined with patriarchy and colonialism. The post-modern approach within media and communication scholarship on migration fails to challenge media’s constitutive role in patriarchal and racial capitalism which fundamentally shapes the process and consequences of migration. Drawing from a Marxist political economic perspective, I analyse the two cases of global transnational migration and internal migration in China and argue that media and communication studies should account for material disparity and class divisions among migrant groups and look for transformative force against unequal power structures.https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1206mediamigrationclassmigrant workerselite migrantscapitalist globalisationinequality |
| spellingShingle | Siyuan Yin Towards a Marxist Political Economy Critique of Migration and the Media tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique media migration class migrant workers elite migrants capitalist globalisation inequality |
| title | Towards a Marxist Political Economy Critique of Migration and the Media |
| title_full | Towards a Marxist Political Economy Critique of Migration and the Media |
| title_fullStr | Towards a Marxist Political Economy Critique of Migration and the Media |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards a Marxist Political Economy Critique of Migration and the Media |
| title_short | Towards a Marxist Political Economy Critique of Migration and the Media |
| title_sort | towards a marxist political economy critique of migration and the media |
| topic | media migration class migrant workers elite migrants capitalist globalisation inequality |
| url | https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1206 |
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