Between two new reactions to the “Palmade affair” and the commentary on the various convulsions of the war in Ukraine, migration issues regularly occupy the vacant media space, generally on the occasion of a tragic shipwreck in the Mediterranean which allows instrumentalize the legitimate emotion of the public in order to make European countries feel even more guilty.
The Lille School of Journalism takes up the subject
But how do you “best” deal with this subject? This is the question posed by the ESJ Lille, always at the forefront of these issues, through the establishment of a new seminar devoted to the “processing of migrations”.
Ce séminairewhich is part of the school’s project entitled “#DialoguesMigrations”, is actually an order from the CFIthe French Development Agency and operator of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, which mandated ESJ Lille to ” think about the way in which we teach journalism students a subject as sensitive as the theme of migration ».
L’@ESJLille et @CFImedias mobilized on the issue of the media treatment of migration with #IFTIC #ENAJM @majacgm @InfosIsic Thank you all for this time of exchanges! pic.twitter.com/46rAOH4LzY
— ESJ Lille (@ESJLille) March 8, 2023
A school of ideological formatting
Some disgruntled minds may see in this collaboration a desire to further format a media discourse – yet already well established – on the migration issue, in order to make it fully compliant with government doxa. A suspicion which will be reinforced by the declared objectives of the seminar insisting on the need “to avoid stereotypes”, to “promote a responsible discourse”, and “to restore the migrant in his quality and dignity as subject and to ensure his informed consent”.
To fulfill these noble objectives, ESJ Lille will “accompany” four schools of journalism in West Africa: MAjAC, in Gambia; ISIC in Guinea, ESCOM in Niger and ENAJM in Mauritania. Neither the mafia management of migrations, nor their economic exploitation, nor their social, identity and security consequences seem to be on the program.
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