Objectified Migrant Identity Through Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis
Journal Title: Global Social Sciences Review - Year 2019, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
The images of migrants have inundated our media lately. However, migrant representation has been largely done through the lens of ‘others’, mostly by the foreign-media, whereas the discourse on the localized version of reality is unaccounted for. This search for self-narrative led us to the analysis of photographic work of Aziz Hazara, an Afghan student of Fine Arts, who envisions migrants as equal to the ‘made-to-migrate’, ‘used’ and sometimes even ‘deformed’ toys from the flea market. The article highlights the portrayal and identity construction of migrants through the lens of an Afghan visual artist by excavating the discourse informing the analogy between the toys and the migrants along with the application of Paul Gee’s identity tool. A multimodal critical discourse analysis of the data reveals that toys ventrilocate the condition of the migrants charac
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Ayesha Saddiqa, Nadia Anwar
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- DOI 10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-I).25
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