Moving beyond the media's 'deficit lens' is essential for racialised peoples to claim belonging. Here's how they're doing it
- Written by Sukhmani Khorana, Senior Research Fellow, Western Sydney University
ShutterstockAustralia’s mainstream media has long viewed refugees, migrants and Indigenous communities through a “deficit lens”. That’s where these populations – in all their glorious complexity – are framed simply as a “problem” that needs to be “fixed”. Never achieving enough. Never...
