Visual (de)humanization: construction of Otherness in newspaper photographs of the refugee crisis

This study examines how Otherness is constructed visually in newspaper photographs of the refugee crisis. visual rhetoric analysis form, content, and function images explores rhetorical strategies deployed visualizations crisis a mainstream Finnish national from 2015 to 2016. The data consisted 1,473 images. identified six used for dehumanizing refugees: massifying, separating, passivating, demonizing, individualizing, recontextualizing Other. turn four discourses related refugees, namely those threat victimhood aimed at as well personhood distance humanizing paper contributes current knowledge on dehumanization humanization refugees public discourse by unpacking subtle mechanisms through which these processes occur.