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BRIDGES holds a workshop with civil society organisations

BRIDGES holds a workshop with civil society organisations

30/09/2022 – BRIDGES experts meet with civil society representatives from Germany, Italy and Spain in Mainz to discuss how to build alternative narratives on migration and counter exclusionary discourses.

BRIDGES: Assessing the production and impact of migration narratives

The H2020 BRIDGES project aims to understand the causes and consequences of migration narratives in a context of increasing politicisation and polarisation with a three-fold objective:

Academic

Analysing the processes of narrative production and impact, and how they influence each other. BRIDGES studies why some migration narratives become dominant over others and what impact they have on individuals’ decisions and attitudes, as well as on policymakers.

Policy

Fostering evidence-based policies. BRIDGES develops a typology of government strategies to respond to populist narratives and provides policy recommendations on how to redress a tendency towards increasingly symbolic policies in the field of migration at the EU and national levels.

Societal

Creating spaces for dialogue between actors involved in narrative production. BRIDGES fosters the exchange of good practices among cultural entities, civil society organisations and migrant communities on how to build alternative narratives on migration.

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Publications

Op-eds

Melilla, One More Step

The deaths at the Melilla border fence on 24 June 2022 are one more step, now because of the brutality of the images and the terms of justification afterwards. Building on previous narratives, they claim that traffickers are the real culprits, and migration is a threat to national security. Beyond all the words, what the facts reveal is that, to ensure fewer arrivals, Europe is willing to pay any price.

Working Papers

EU-funded information campaigns targeting potential migrants

Though a systematic review of the literature on information campaigns targeting migrants, this Working Paper shows the different forms of information campaigns that exist, their set-up and frameworks, the actors involved, and the different types of narratives that they propose.

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News & Events

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Multimedia

Telling migration crises

Why are Ukrainian refugees portrayed as victims while people fleeing other conflicts are portrayed as a threat? Are media further polarising the debate on migration? Ferruccio Pastore, May Bulman and András Földes explore the role of media as producers of migration narratives in this podcast conducted by Mar Sabé Dausà.

BRIDGES in a nutshell

What is BRIDGES and what are our goals? This infographic presents the project’s main outputs and objectives in a nutshell, as well as the logic behind its research activities, which aim to tackle all stages in the production and impact of narratives to determine why some narratives on migration become dominant over others.

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Bridging the gaps in the study of migration narratives

What do we mean by “narrative”? How are narratives on migration produced and re-produced in the media and policy arenas? And at the individual level? What gaps does the project aim to bridge? BRIDGES Scientific Coordinator and three other experts from the consortium explain their views on these questions.

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