Taking as my starting point Hannah Arendt’s (1994/1943) observations on the public response to the mass exile of Jews during World War Two, I argue that the UK’s mediatised reaction to those escaping conflict during the Mediterranean refugee crisis followed similar ideological patterns: fear, suspicion, antipathy and reserved compassion. I then move on to examine the role that human rights organisations had in the sympathetic re-construction of migrants/refugees. Here, I argue that at the same time as media platforms have become progressively more intertwined, ideologically complex, and perhaps as a result more responsive to shifting narratives and the changing public mood about the other, non-governmental organisations continue to operate within an established system of representation that render the migrant abject in terms of western dominance. In response to this reading of the refugee crisis, I offer the conclusion that while discourses produced by the various actors with a stake in the construction and counter-construction of the crisis were multifaceted and dynamic in their response to the evolving situation, the competing narratives surrounding the event remained resolutely embedded within a neocolonial discourse of otherness.

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某些人权：地中海难民危机中的其他新殖民主义话语

以汉娜·阿伦特（Hannah Arendt，1994/1943）对第二次世界大战期间公众对犹太人大规模流亡的反应的观察为出发点，我认为英国对地中海难民危机中逃脱冲突者的调解反应遵循类似的意识形态：恐惧，怀疑，反感和内在的同情心。然后，我继续研究人权组织在同情地重建移民/难民中所起的作用。在这里，我认为，在媒体平台逐渐交织在一起，意识形态复杂的同时，也许由于对叙事方式的变化和公众对其他事物的变化的反应更加敏感，非政府组织继续在既定范围内运作代表制，使移民在西方统治地位上处于绝望地位。