Intersectionality of race, gender and xenophobia in reporting on the Ukrainian and Syrian refugee crisis

In the seminar - Refugee crisis through media lenses: Intersectionality of race, gender and xenophobia in reporting on the Ukrainian and Syrian refugee crisis - She explores how European news agencies reported on Ukrainian refugees in 2022 versus Syrian refugees in 2015. 

These people have very different social, cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds, so this research aims to shed light on whether the agency reporting contained potential prejudice when reporting on refugee issues. 

She analyzes Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Agence France-Presse, Česká tisková kancelář, Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata, Hrvatska izvještajna novinska agencija and Polska Agencja Prasowa asking:

• What frames are used when reporting on Syrian refugees?
• What frames are used when reporting on the Ukrainian refugees?
• Who speaks, and who is spoken for?
• What are the key differences between reporting on
  Syrian and Ukrainian refugees?
• What are the key differences between European news agencies when reporting on refugee issues? 
• How is intersectionality between race, gender and culture presented in the stories about refugees and migrants?

About the speaker

Barbara Ravbar is a PhD researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University Prague. 

She holds an MA in Journalism (2019) and has five years of experience as a journalist in agency, national, and commercial media. Her research interests are gender and media, minority studies, human rights, fake news, and media representations. 

She is currently employed as a junior researcher at The National Institute for Research on Socioeconomic Impacts of Diseases and Systemic Risks, where she researches the impacts of COVID-19 on media.
She has participated in numerous conferences regarding women's rights and finished the educational programme at the Centre for Women's Studies in Zagreb. 

She won the 2nd prize for a multimedia project about Syrian refugees (2017) and was nominated for the 8th Annual Award for journalistic work that promotes the values of education (2021).