{"id":21094,"date":"2025-10-21T08:23:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/?post_type=resources&#038;p=21094"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:09:22","slug":"rerouting-digital-identities-and-creating-counter-narratives-a-public-engagement-project-with-migrants-in-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/index.php\/resources\/rerouting-digital-identities-and-creating-counter-narratives-a-public-engagement-project-with-migrants-in-the-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Rerouting Digital Identities and Creating Counter Narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>A public engagement project with migrants in the Netherlands<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>RNW Media, in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/cdh.uu.nl\/about\/data-school\/\">Utrecht University Data School and the Future<\/a> + Literacies + <a href=\"https:\/\/www.methodslab.nl\">Methods Lab<\/a>, conducted a two-pillar national study on migration narratives in the Netherlands (2000\u20132024). The research analysed 125,000 Dutch news articles and combined this with 7 months of fieldwork and interviews with migrants to understand how media framing and lived experience intersect. The findings show that Dutch media predominantly frame migration as a \u201cproblem\u201d for the country, with politicians dominating the narrative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While migrants are often absent or abstract in media coverage, they still feel its effects: exclusion, othering, racialised perception, and self-censorship in both online and offline spaces. The research highlights the need to amplify migrant agency, build counter-narratives, and foster public awareness that humanises migration beyond policy and crisis language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-Oct-14-Managerial-report-Submitted-3.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 2025 Oct 14 Managerial report Submitted 3.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-6caeed29-c0ea-4bbb-9aa8-eefb90dd4237\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-Oct-14-Managerial-report-Submitted-3.pdf\">2025 Oct 14 Managerial report Submitted 3<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-Oct-14-Managerial-report-Submitted-3.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-6caeed29-c0ea-4bbb-9aa8-eefb90dd4237\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This research analysed 125,000 Dutch news articles and combined this with 7 months of fieldwork and interviews with migrants to understand how media framing and lived experience intersect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21095,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-21094","resources","type-resources","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources\/21094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/resources"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnw.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}