Visual Framing of Muslim Women on Instagram: Migration, Representation, and Everyday Experience in Europe

This thesis examines how, in the European context after 2015, Muslim migrant women are presented through specific visual frames in representations produced on Instagram, and how the meanings produced through these frames affect women’s everyday experiences from an intersectional perspective. Based on a qualitative research design, the study combines visual analysis with semi-structured interviews to examine how these representations produce and circulate racialized and gendered meanings across intersecting axes of gender, religion, and migration. Accordingly, this thesis explores how the visual narratives constructed on social media are not merely composed of individual images; rather, they function as structures that continuously reproduce specific discourses, hierarchies, and power relations.