Visual Power, Representation and Migration Law: Framing Migrants
By (Author) Dorota Gozdecka
Edinburgh University Press
Edinburgh University Press
10th November 2025
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Public international law: human rights
Philosophy: aesthetics
Migration, immigration and emigration
Cultural studies
Methods, theory and philosophy of law
Public international law: humanitarian law
Immigration law
Paperback
192
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
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.