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Xzarina Nicholson
Researcher at University of Queensland
Publications - 1
Citations - 231
Xzarina Nicholson is an academic researcher from University of Queensland. The author has contributed to research in topics: Refugee. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 177 citations.
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The Visual Dehumanisation of Refugees
TL;DR: The authors examine how media images of asylum seekers have framed ensuing debates during two crucial periods over the past decade and demonstrate that refugees have primarily been represented as medium or large groups and through a focus on boats, which reinforces a politics of fear that explains why refugees are publicly framed as people whose plight, dire as it is, nevertheless does not generate a compassionate political response.