ABSTRACT
The following sentiment, expressed by hooks (1989), although not directly addressing media representations of migrants, is exemplary of the attitude that is often behind them:
Only tell me about your pain. I want to know your story. And then I will tell it back to you in a new way. Tell it back to you in such a way that it has become mine, my own. Re-writing you I write myself a new. I am still author, authority. I am still the coloniser, the speaking subject and you are now at the centre of my talk.
(p.22)