The construction of Syrian refugee identity by symbolic annihilation

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dc.authorid0000-0003-1590-4689
dc.contributor.authorPandır, Müzeyyenen_US
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-09T17:40:44Z
dc.date.available2026-01-09T17:40:44Z
dc.date.issued2022-09-16
dc.departmentIşık Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Bölümüen_US
dc.departmentIşık University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciencesen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper is about identifying the ways in which some Syrian refugees and refugee experiences are underrepresented or made invisible in media representations. This mediated invisibility is partly achieved through representing the refugee within usual stereotypical patterns which reduce the experiences of the refugee only to a few (victimhood or being a threat) and partly through symbolic annihilation, which is defined as the absence of representation (Gerbner, 1976). Through an analysis of newspaper photographs published between the years 2011-2015, this paper discusses that what is made invisible in Syrian refugee representations are the diversity of their lived and positive experiences and characteristics, such as being entrepreneurs, well-educated people and even “normal people” enjoying the daily life. Diversity in representation is important because it reflects the actual complexity of lived experiences of refugees and brings a challenge to the stereotypical refugee images. Portraying the diverse refugee experiences also emphasizes the human agency which is neglected in the case of refugee/migrant issues. Consequently the study demonstrates and discusses that the identity of Syrian refugee is constructed not only through manifest representations but also through underrepresentation and symbolic annihilation.en_US
dc.description.versionPublisher's Versionen_US
dc.identifier.citationPandır, M. (2022). The construction of Syrian refugee identity by symbolic annihilation. Paper presented at the Looking back to look forward: Celebrating 10 Years of Research on Migration, Forced Displacement and Superdiversity, 44-44.en_US
dc.identifier.endpage44
dc.identifier.startpage44
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11729/6891
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/documents/college-social-sciences/social-policy/iris/2022/iris-at-10-conference-full-programme.pdf
dc.institutionauthorPandır, Müzeyyenen_US
dc.institutionauthorid0000-0003-1590-4689
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.peerreviewedYesen_US
dc.publicationstatusPublisheden_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Birmingham, Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofLooking back to look forward: Celebrating 10 Years of Research on Migration, Forced Displacement and Superdiversityen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryKonferans Öğesi - Uluslararası - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.titleThe construction of Syrian refugee identity by symbolic annihilationen_US
dc.typeConference Objecten_US
dspace.entity.typePublicationen_US

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