Visual Representations of the Refugee Experience from Those Experiencing It. A Case Study of Refugees From Syria into Greece
Visual Representations of the Refugee Experience from Those Experiencing It. A Case Study of Refugees From Syria into Greece

Author(s): Anastasia Chalkia, Joanna Tsiganou, Martha Lembesi
Subject(s): Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Visual Representations; Refugee Experience; Refugees; Syria; Greece;
Summary/Abstract: The usual tools we, the sociologists, use in our study of the social experience are based on transcribing textualised information to meaningful knowledge. However, within the mounting vein of visual sociology new means have been added,1 which when used solely or additionally, might help us to comprehend more fully narratives of life experiences.2 Our paper focuses on the travelling and host experiences into Greece of refugees from Syria. It is based on a qualitative research conducted in 2019-2020 with Syrian refugees incomers to Greece. It is in the scope of our paper to address the framing of the refugee experience not only in terms of the discourse resulting out from the face-to-faceinterviews with our research population but mainly in terms of the visual representations of the refugee experience as exhibited in their own photographs.

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