Contents

Guest editorial

Sanctuary songs: Refugees and asylum-seekers in/and the media - by Karen Ross and David Baines

Papers

• The cruelty is the point: Mediated affect and the Rwanda plan - by Jon Hackett

• 'Only English around here, darlin': His house, anti-location and the social (sur)realist horror of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK - by James Rendell

• Documentaries of absence in the films Purple sea and Asmat - names - by Boris Ruzic

• Facilitating a reflective practice group for exiled journalists - by Vivienne Francis and Jeeda Alhakim

• Covering migration and forced displacement - ethical challenges for journalism education in the Arab world - by Monika Lengauer

• Reclaiming agency through film education - by Jenn Durrett

• Refugee publicness through rhizomatic alternative media - by Rob Sharp

Reviews

Julian Petley on Journalism beyond Orwell: A collection of essays, by Richard Lance Keeble, and Annmaree Watharow on Disrupting the academy with lived experience-led knowledge, edited by Maree Higgins and Caroline Lenette