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Journal Article
Reporting from a Migrant Camp ‘with Humour and Humanity’
2024
Overview
Abstract In Les Nouvelles de la Jungle de Calais [News from the Calais jungle], authors Lisa Mandel and Yasmine Bouagga report on the 2016 migrant camp dismantlement. Instead of opting for a descriptive empathetic approach aligning with the expected humanitarian discourse, the narrator resorts to humour to highlight the absurd situations migrants encounter. This article demonstrates that humour, an effective narrative engine, underpins a powerful criticism of the system migrants must navigate. Humour is used to mitigate the representational effect of the spectacle of harsh living conditions and redirects our attention to the shortcomings of the humanitarian approach and to the key role played by journalists in disseminating simplistic or inaccurate reports. Through absurd humour, the book avoids many representational pitfalls and invites the reader to reflect on their own positionality.
Publisher
Berghahn Journals,Berghahn Books, Inc
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