Cartoons published in
the infamous French magazine, Charlie
Hebdo, brought the complexities of representation and politics to the fore,
in the recent past. In the cartoon depicting a drowned immigrant figure next to
a Jesus like figure walking on water, was also the legend, “Christians walk on
water, Muslim children sink”. Yet another featured dead Aylan Kurdi’s figure,
next to a McDonald type advertisement.
The detractors were
quick to condemn Charlie Hebdo’s overtly racists and insensitive cartoons, while
the magazine’s editors and several others pointed out at the satire inherent in
their representational practices. They claim, the satire was not directed at
the migrants themselves, but Europe’s response, inadequate, to the migrant
crisis.This debate points at
the complexities inherent in the ‘circuit of culture’, pointing at the tensions
between signifying practices, modes of production, consumption, identities and
regulations.
The current issue of Refugee Watch Online seeks to tease out
the politics inherent in cultural representations of migration and forced
migration, From the differential and evocative use of a term to the popular
imaginary of a space definitively forming an identity and a desire in the
universe of Malayalam cinema, to the imaginative use of borders and crossings
in search of a supportive and irreverent Europe— this issue brings together a
host of articles reflecting on the representations of migration across mediums,
spaces and modes.
The articles in this issue are as follow (click on the links below):
The Gulf on the Malayali Big Screen: An outline
history
IO STO CON LA SPOSA: A Video-Graphic Review
Migrations and Identities: A Study of Sea of Poppies
Harraga: Snapshot on A Migration and Its
Representation
Fratricide: A Review.
Mein Hoon Yusuf Aur Yeh Mera Bhai: The Story of a Real
People
The articles in this issue are as follow (click on the links below):
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