![]() ![]() The work uses textual analysis to speak to earlier research-report from regimented qualitative field-study conducted in 2013 in the Republic of Malta. We foreground the pervasive border-restrictions, oppressive treatments, and involuntary deportations experienced by these female migrants in neo-colonial surveillance systems, and tropes of racist securitization masking the interlocking systems of oppression the female migrants have to deal with. Our work disturbs existing notion of free movement of individuals across transnational borders to accentuate the effect of Western media representations on Europe-bound female youth migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa. Migrant youth, and in this context, female African migrants are being subjected to very difficult transit experiences both at transnational borders (Toasije, 2009 Brachet, 2012) and in the receiving societies (Ki-moon, 2009 Solimano, 2010). Media Representation, Discrimination, Female Migrants, Social Construction, Anti-Racism, African YouthĪBSTRACT: The United Nation’s Technical Specialist for Adolescents and Youth at the UN Population Fund, Sylvia Wong reveals that young adults currently represent the largest proportion of transnational migrants (Wong, 2009). Media and Construction of Difference: How Media Representations Work to Criminalize, Label, and Induce Border-Restrictions against Young African Female Migrants in EuropeĪUTHORS: Michael Onyedika Nwalutu, Felicia Ihuoma Nwalutu ![]() Hochschild (Eds.), Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy.
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