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6. Media and Climate Migration: Transnational and Local Reporting on Vulnerable Island Communities

Authors : Anna Roosvall, Matthew Tegelberg, Florencia Enghel

Published in: Media, Journalism and Disaster Communities

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Climate-induced migration is a global challenge that affects specific local communities unevenly. This chapter addresses it as an issue of climate justice via three cases concerning U.S. islands: Sarichef Island in Alaska, Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana and Puerto Rico. The cases were selected for their similarities and differences concerning poverty, indigenous populations and rights, and political representation. These aspects correspond to three dimensions of injustice: economic, cultural and political. By applying multimodal critical discourse analysis to a small sample of newspaper articles for each case, the chapter explores how climate migration is understood in local and transnational media, and if and how issues of justice appear in selected news coverage. Findings indicate that transnational journalism tends to focus on economic injustice and scalar transcendence (local–global scales), while local journalism uniquely integrates scales as well as justice dimensions.

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Title: Media and Climate Migration: Transnational and Local Reporting on Vulnerable Island Communities
Authors: Anna Roosvall
Matthew Tegelberg
Florencia Enghel
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Media, Journalism and Disaster Communities
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-33711-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-33712-4

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33712-4_6

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