Objectives

1) analyzing the messages created by media about migration.

2) exploring the dynamics of media created by migrants as diasporic communities in order to look into its dynamics.

3) highlighting the knowledge accumulated regarding the gallegan migratory experience as a converging element for policy communicating or rights discussing or elaborating information aimed to the public.

For the academic encounter we are calling papers to be read at the main plenum of the forum in the following lines:

a) the concept of migration and migrant in the communication field.

b) migrant people’s communicational rights and responsibilities.

c) good professional journalistic practices regarding migration and migrants.

d) kinds, characteristics and contexts for the emission of media messages regarding migration and migrants.

e) political and social influence of media speech regarding media and migrants.

f) communication of migration policies and representation of the host society for migrant population.

g) speech and role of NGOs in migrant communication.

h) speech, role and use of the migrant organizations about communication and media.

i) Kinds, characteristics and projection of media within migration.

j) Role of new technologies in communication about migration and migrant´s communication

k) participation dynamics in migrant´s media.

l) social daily life and communication for migants.

m) diaspora concept and different forms of diasporic communication.

n) communication, migration and citizenship.

ñ) international conflicts and migration in media.

o) communication as an instrument for conflict mediation among cultures.

p) galician migration and media.

q) the value of the galician migratory experience as means for the reconciliation and development of  resources and policies for migration.

An international scientific committee will evaluate the quality, pertinence and interest of the papers received for the vi forum and will allow the reading of up to 10 of them in front of the plenum. A selection of The rest of them will be published in the forum memoir.