Gender, Migration and the Media

Myria Georgiou teaches in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics (LSE), UK. Her research focuses on questions of identity construction within mediated urban and transnational spaces. Previous publications include Transnational Lives and the Media: Reimagining Diasporas (2007) and Diaspora, Identity and the Media: Diasporic Transnationalism and Mediated Spatialities (2006).

• 1. Introduction Part I: Conceptual and policy interrogations 2. Access denied: The anatomy of silence, immobilization and the gendered migrant 3. Getting integration right? Media transnationalism and domopolitics in Irelend 4. Do Turkish women in the diaspora build social capital? Evidence from the Low Countries 5. Intersectionality and mediated cultural production in a globalized post-colonial world Part II: Engendered diasporic mediascapes 6. Watching soap opera in the diaspora: Cultural proximity or critical proximity? 7. Online mediations in transnational spaces: Cosmopolitan (Re-)formations of belonging and identity in the Turkish diaspora 8. Migrant African women: Tales of agency and belonging 9. Identities in-between: The impact of satellite broadcasting on Greek Orthodox minority (Rum Polites) women’s perception of their identities in Turkey