Migrant Media

Kira Kosnick is Junior Professor of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

". . . a splendid, theoretically provocative, and productive ethnography.July 2009"—Y. Michal Bodemann, University of Toronto in Berlin"[Kosnick's] work contributes not only to the anthropology of media, but also to other areas of anthropology, such as community and migration studies. Her work is truly timely, as it offers answers to questions that German politicians are now (again) asking with populist overtones. March 2011"—H-SAE, H-Net Reviews"This book makes an excellent contribution to existing scholarly literatures on media and migration in Europe [and also] helps to define a new subfield in the anthropology of media, which I might call 'migrant media' in comparison with the literature on 'indigenous media' from the 1980s and 1990s."—Dominic Boyer, Cornell University"[D]irectly addresses a burgeoning field of inquiry concerned with multiculturalism in Europe and the formation of transnational public spheres. . . . [A] model of clarity and rigor in its arguments, and the case study material is presented in a sympathetic and engaging way."—Martin Stokes, University of Chicago

• ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. The History of Broadcasting for Migrants in Germany3. Foreign Voices—Migrant Representation on Radio MultiKulti4. The Gap between Culture and Cultures5. Bringing the Nation Back In: Media Nationalism between Local and Transnational Articulations6. Coping with "Extremism": Migrant Television Production on Berlin's Open Channel7. Signifying with a Difference: Migrant Mediations in Local and Transnational Contexts8. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex