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Yayın Social exclusion of women refugees in public imagination: underrepresentation and depersonalisation(Kilis 7 Aralık Üniversitesi, 2022-12-31) Pandır, MüzeyyenThis paper studies the news images of Syrian women refugees and the representational practices employed in them to question how these portraying practices position women refugees, and how they actually act as ways of socially excluding them in the host community. Analysed are the newspaper photographs of Syrian women refugees published in top-selling four Turkish newspapers in 2015. Using a content analysis fed by visual analysis, the ways of visually portraying women refugees is studied by investigating the representational elements and practices in the images, which are subject, theme, camera distance, camera angle and location. The findings reveal that Syrian women refugees are underrepresented and in the rare cases of their appearance, the way they are portrayed position them as distant, passive and depersonalised subjects as part of the masses. The underrepresentation and depersonalisation of women refugees, who are among the vulnerable women group 1) erase the individual life stories and varied lived experiences of women refugees from public imagination and deny the female refugee agency, 2) prevent the emergence of the public talk on the women refugee problems, which in turn 3) prevent the formation of a social understanding and empathy towards women refugees. Thus, it is argued that the ways in which Syrian women refugees are portrayed in the media act as barriers for their social inclusion.Yayın Media portrayals of refugees and their effects on social conflict and social cohesion(T.C. Dışişleri Bakanlığı Stratejik Araştırmalar Merkezi, 2020) Pandır, MüzeyyenMedia portrayals of refugees can produce prejudice toward refugees as well as understanding and acceptance. In that sense, the media have the potential to be part of the problem or part of the solution in issues of conflict and cohesion between host and refugee communities. In this critical time when the future of Syrian refugees in Turkey is being discussed, this article reviews previous research on the media’s representation of refugees, identifies the dominant representational practices and discusses their effects on the inclusion and exclusion of refugees, which may lead to social cohesion or social conflict, respectively. The main body of the article first identifies the negative effects of refugee representations, namely victimization, depoliticization, dehumanization, marginalization, homogenization and deindividualization, and explains in what ways these representations stigmatize refugees as “other” in society and produce prejudice and xenophobia toward them. The article then turns to the representation strategies used to reduce prejudice and motivate understanding in society. Here, empathizing with refugees and taking a rights-based journalism approach are identified among the media’s inclusion practices toward refugees. Overall, specifically focusing on Syrians in Turkey, the paper aims to initiate a discussion on how the media can play a role in assisting the acceptance of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in a new country by raising awareness about the media’s representational practices.Yayın Covering Syrian asylum seekers in the Turkish press(İstanbul Üniversitesi, 2016) Efe, İbrahim; Paksoy, Alaaddin F.; Pandır, MüzeyyenThe war in Syria has not lost its intenseness since 2011. The situation is afecting the region and world politics. Inevitably, Syrian asylum seekers became a crucial topic of Turkish media and political agendas in recent years. At the moment, Turkey is one of top countries in terms of the number of hosted asylum seekers. The issue is shaping Turkish domestic politics and it is afecting Turkey’s relationship with the world, and especially with the EU. There are some recent publications about the Syrian asylum seekers (e.g. Efe, 2015; Erdoğan, 2015). This study seeks to add new indings to the literature by looking at a diferent text sample. The study is based on a sample of 5 newspapers (Hürriyet, Sabah, Posta, Sözcü, Zaman) and looking at news reports and columns published in the year of 2014. The papers were chosen according to their political stance and their circulation igures. PRNET digital archive was employed to reach the data. The news items were collected by entering the keywords “Syrian refugees” and “Syrian asylum seekers”.
