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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