Media, Central American Refugees, and the U.S. Border Crisis

Robin Andersen is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of seven books and dozens of book chapters and journal articles, and writes media analysis and criticism for a variety of publications. She co-edited the Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action, and she is now editing the Routledge Focus on Media and Humanitatarian Action series. She also recently published, HBO’s Treme and the Stories of the Storm: From New Orleans as Disaster Myth to Groundbreaking Television. Her 2006 book A Century of Media: A Century of War won the 2007 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award from the Honor Society of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. She is a Project Censored Judge, and her article for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting was recognized as a Top Ten Story for 2018.Adrian Bergmann is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical, Anthropological, and Archaeological Studies of the University of El Salvador, where he conducts interdisciplinary research on peace building, conflict transformation, and violence reduction. Previously, he held the Chair of Peace Culture at Don Bosco University, and he has worked as a scholar and practitioner with street children, sex workers, gang members, police officers, and policy-makers. At present, he is focused on the transformation of dynamics of armed violence, the role of the state in the production of violence, and strategies for constructive engagement with gangs.

• Introduction. 1. From the Civil War in El Salvador to MS-13: Media Frames that Distort, Mislead and Omit 2. Violence, Migration, and the Perverse Effects of Gang Repression in Central America 3. The Photograph Seen "Around the World": Media, the Migrant Mother From Honduras, and the U.S.- Backed Military Coup of 2009 4. Guatemala and the Extractive Industries: Media Fail to Connect Migrant Girl who Died on Custody to Years of Post-Colonial Oppression and Genocide 5. Violence and Brutality at the U.S. Border and Beyond: The Media and the Perpetuation of Militarism in the Hemisphere. Coda Solutions: Changing Course, Discourse, and Media Frames