Media contributions
1Media contributions
Title Visualising War and Peace Combating Reductive Refugee Narratives with Lina Fadel Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet The University of St Andrews' Visualising War and Peace Research Project Media type Web Duration/Length/Size 58:30 mins Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 15/02/23 Description This episode is part of a mini series exploring forced displacement as one of the many legacies of conflict. Alice interviews Dr Lina Fadel, an Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University.During the episode, Lina shares her own story of forced migration from Syria to Scotland, and discusses some of the challenges that she has faced as she has made a new home in the UK. In particular, we reflect on the hard work that forced migrants have to do to establish a sense of belonging, and the ways in which people around them can undermine that hard work. We also discuss toxic representations of refugees and migrants in the media and politics. Lina reflects on the different connotations that are associated with those two different terms ('refugee' and 'migrant'), and wider tendencies to categories some forced migrants as 'worthy' and others as not. She also gets us thinking about who controls knowledge production and storytelling about migrants (largely people with no lived experience of migration), and explains what she means by 'the tyranny of the single narrative' - i.e. reductive storytelling, that flattens all migration experiences into one simple, often negative account, that does not do justice to the diversity or complexity of different migrant journeys. Producer/Author University of St Andrews - Dr Alice Konig URL https://www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/11911596-combating-reductive-refugee-narratives-with-lina-fadel Persons Lina Fadel