Sakellari Maria
School of Art & Media, University of Brighton, Brighton, England, UK.
Open Res Eur. 2024 Mar 13;3:163. doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.16232.2. eCollection 2023.
This study addresses the underexplored issue of climate migration in non-governmental organisations (NGOs) communication, which is particularly relevant given the anticipated effects of climate change on migratory patterns. It paints a richer picture of NGOs' visual and textual discourses on climate migration and delves into the ways in which NGOs' depictions of climate migrants reinforce the 'us' and 'them' dichotomy that characterises policy and media circuits' wider debate on this issue. NGOs visual practises and textual narratives depoliticize climate migrants by underlining their otherness and propensity to bring social instability and disturbance. This raises doubts about the efficacy of climate migration-related online public education and policy advocacy efforts run by NGOs. This paper innovates as it encourages NGOs to create new ways of depicting climate refugees. It provides a framework for thinking about the role that NGOs could play in creating new ways of discussing climate migration.
本研究探讨了非政府组织（NGO）传播中气候迁移这一未得到充分探讨的问题，鉴于气候变化对移民模式的预期影响，这一问题尤为相关。它更全面地描绘了非政府组织关于气候迁移的视觉和文本话语，并深入研究了非政府组织对气候移民的描述强化“我们”与“他们”二分法的方式，这种二分法是政策和媒体界关于该问题更广泛辩论的特征。非政府组织的视觉实践和文本叙事通过强调气候移民的他者性以及带来社会不稳定和干扰的倾向，使气候移民去政治化。这引发了人们对非政府组织开展的与气候迁移相关的在线公众教育和政策倡导工作成效的质疑。本文具有创新性，因为它鼓励非政府组织创造描绘气候难民的新方式。它提供了一个框架，用于思考非政府组织在创造讨论气候迁移的新方式方面可以发挥的作用。
