Visual Power, Representation and Migration Law: Framing Migrants

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.

Dorota Anna Gozdecka is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University, College of Law and the Associate Director of the Centre for Law, Arts and Humanities.

Australian National University, College of Law and the Centre for Law, Arts and Humanities.