Unpacking the global refugee crisis: deploying the ethical and political work of border crossing

This article, derived from the author’s keynote address to the ANZCA conference in July 2017, seeks to reinvigorate a constitutive Communication research approach, drawing on feminist, postcolonial, and intersectional analysis as well as recent research on listening. The model is tested via a case study of BBC media framing the European 2017 refugee crisis as a regional, rather than global, problem. It is argued that Eastern European and Tier 1 …