"Visual border politics: Images and Migration Governance in Europe provides a pathbreaking account of how migration is visualized in contemporary European media and the political implications thereof. Bringing together visual International Relations research and critical migration and border studies, Laura Holderied presents a powerful theoretical framework, thoughtful and hands-on methodological guidance and extremely rich case studies of the UK and Germany." - Lene Hansen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark "Focusing on the European 'refugee crisis, ' Visual Border Politics offers a rich analysis of the complex and polysemic power of images. Holderied convincingly argues - and empirically demonstrates - that this power is not uniform, but emerges from and depends on the context within which images of migration gain meaning." - Roland Bleiker, University of Queensland, Australia "From images of discarded life-jackets on Mediterranean beaches to queues of people crossing fences along the 'Balkan Route', the visualization of Europe's so-called 'migration crisis' features prominently in the contemporary political imagination. Conceptually sophisticated and empirically rich, Visual Border Politics moves beyond existing scholarly analyses to explore the political power of images and the social construction of Europe's borders. Meticulously researched and accessibly written, Holderied makes a landmark contribution to the interdisciplinary study of European border and migration governance." - Nick Vaughan-Williams, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.