RESONATE · Designing Resonant Frames: How to Effectively Communicate about the Rights and Inclusion of Immigrants and Refugees?
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2022-01-15 → 2025-01-14
- EU contribution
- €269,003
- Participants
- 2
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
Designing Resonant Frames: How to Effectively Communicate about the Rights and Inclusion of Immigrants and Refugees?
Human rights groups have sounded a distress call on the rising hate speech, xenophobia, criminalisation and stigmatisation of migrants and refugees in Europe and beyond. While immigrant and refugee rights movements (IRRM) have provided temporary assistance to refugees and migrants in numerous countries, they have failed to respond to the societal backlash against migration. RESONATE explores ways in which IRRMs can communicate with societies better to alter biased public opinion and promote rights for noncitizens. By focusing on Turkey, the largest refugee-hosting country in the world and a major hub for irregular migration, the project maps the capacities and communicative strategies of the emergent IRRM in the country. It combines novel research methods with insights from sociology, communication studies, and political science to challenge stigmatising views and solicit broader support for the rights of non-citizens towards forging more inclusive societies. The project has three specific objectives: 1. Mapping the Immigrant and Refugee Rights Movement (IRRM) in Turkey 2. Identifying Resonant Frames concerning the migration debate to determine resonant and potent frames at individual and group levels and help refugee and migrant rights organizations amplify their public communication effectively 3. Testing the Effects of Resonant Frames on the public These scientific objectives aim to decrease racialized attitudes toward non-citizens in all refugee and migrant-hosting countries. They could serve to improve social cohesion in the midst of rising far-right and anti-immigration sentiments that polarize many societies.
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Project objective
Immigrant and refugee rights movements (IRRM) have lately shown success in providing temporary assistance and integration programs in numerous countries. However, they have mostly failed to respond to the societal backlash against immigrants and refugees. How can IRRMs communicate with societies better, alter hostile public opinion and promote rights for noncitizens? Through the case of Turkey, the largest refugee-hosting country, RESONATE aims to offer novel analytical and methodological approaches to empower IRRMs with resilient tools. It has three specific objectives. First, it will map the capacities and communicative strategies of the IRRM in Turkey through systematic network analysis. Second, by conducting a representative survey, it will identify ‘resonant frames’ with the public ensconced in core values and human rights. Finally, it will test the effects of these resonant frames in transforming public attitudes through field experiments with subjects recruited through social media. RESONATE has an innovative and solution-oriented approach and combines cutting-edge research methods with insights from sociology, cultural and communication studies and political science. Public opinion data collected on noncitizens in many countries mostly report negative attitudes. Such data are often exploited to entrench stigmatizing views as ‘facts’. RESONATE seeks original data collection and findings that could empower vulnerable groups. By revealing potent and resonant frames, it also aims to entrench democratic and rights-based movements engaged in boundary and identity re-making on highly polarizing issues. Findings will boost IRRM’s mobilizational capacity in Turkey and provide hints for other movements in Europe by identifying vital ways to challenge sedimented racializing and marginalizing frames. RESONATE will be hosted by the University of Venice and Northwestern University and offer collaborative outcomes beneficial to all parties.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA · VeneziaCoordinatorItaly
- NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY CORPORATION · EVANSTONUnited States
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