Did the European Migrant Crisis Change News Coverage of Immigration? A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigration Television News and the Actors Speaking in It

Beckers, Kathleen; Aelst, Peter Van

doi:10.1080/15205436.2019.1663873

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“…These results are in line with the tendencies noted in the literature on the media coverage of migration in general (Baker et al, 2013;Beckers & Van Aelst, 2019). Thus, Romanian labour migrants during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic were presented mostly as a collective, and they tended not to possess a voice in the media.…”

Section: First Research Questionsupporting

confidence: 86%

“…This poses challenges concerning sources and angles of coverage for media institutions and correspondents, who, especially in times of crisis, like the pandemic, only have mediated access to the migrants' world, and need to domesticate (Clausen, 2004) foreign media voices and representations to cover a partly domestic social actor. In this context, voices represented in the media coverage are important because social actors who get a voice can influence how events are interpreted (Beckers & Van Aelst, 2019). However, refugees' and migrants' voices are barely represented in media coverage (Georgiou & Zaborowski, 2017).…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previous research highlighted the role of media in shaping public debates about immigration (Burscher et al, 2015;Chauzy & Appave, 2014). Recent studies focusing on the framing of migrants in the news unveiled diverse perspectives, from innocent victims claiming solidarity to conflictual actors posing a threat to culture and security (Beckers & Van Aelst, 2019). In general, associating immigrants with crime is a common practice (Jacobs et al, 2018).…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Between Conflict and Solidarity: Pandemic Media Coverage of Romanian Intra-EU Labour Migrants

Vincze

Balaban

2022

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The Covid-19 pandemic affected Romanian intra-EU labour migrants in a particular way and challenged the established themes associated with and the social roles assigned to them in news discourses. During the first wave of the pandemic, Covid-19 hotspots were reported abroad in Romanian migrant communities, the most notorious example being at the Tönnies factory in Germany. The pandemic brought to prominence the precarious working conditions of labour migrants employed in agriculture and especially in the food industry. Wider discussions, conflicts, and solidarity actions were generated around this topic. In the present study, we identify the main themes and topics present in the Romanian media coverage of Romanian labour migrants, as well as the way foreign, particularly German, media perspectives were integrated into and domesticated in the Romanian coverage. Findings show that both the Romanian and German media used, to a certain extent, the media coverage of this exceptional pandemic situation to invite reflection on the general social costs of migration and on the responsibility of political actors in the migrants’ country of origin, in their country of destination, and at the level of EU institutions. However, the perspective of the migrants was underrepresented in the media coverage.

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Section: First Research Questionsupporting

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Between Conflict and Solidarity: Pandemic Media Coverage of Romanian Intra-EU Labour Migrants

Vincze

Balaban

2022

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“…By offering a set of interpretive packages that give meaning to an issue and contribute to the definition and specification of its causes (Entman, 1993(Entman, , 2004Gamson and Modigliani, 1989), media discourse both reflects and shapes public understanding of social problems. Particularly during 'crisis', the salience of risk issues can increase and different interpretations can emerge and compete for dominance in the public debate (Beckers and Van Aelst, 2019;Galantino, 2010;Horsti, 2008). The combination of challenges such as the 'refugee crisis' and the terrorist threat provided an opportunity to reinforce a tendency towards the securitization of migration in the media and, presumably, in the whole public debate in European countries.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In November 2015, the Paris terror attacks played a pivotal role in collapsing the migrant/terrorist categories, further shifting the focus of debate to migration as a security threat in Europe (Beckers and Van Aelst, 2019;Chouliaraki and Zaborowski, 2017;Nail, 2016;Osservatorio di Pavia, 2016). Initial speculation that at least one of the attackers took the Eastern Mediterranean route into Europe intensified concerns that terrorists could infiltrate European borders by posing as refugees.…”

Section: Migration and Terrorism In The Mediamentioning

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The migration–terrorism nexus: An analysis of German and Italian press coverage of the ‘refugee crisis’

Galantino

2020

European Journal of Criminology

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Over the last few years, terrorist attacks in European cities, together with the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, have (re)ignited a debate on whether there is an association between the two issues. Drawing on sociological approaches to risk and uncertainty, I claim that the discursive construction of causal linkages connecting refugees and migrants to terrorist activities is a fundamental passage in the process of social construction of migration as a threat. To identify the terrorism–migration linkages constructed in/through the media, this article examines the coverage of migration issues in two Italian and two German newspapers in 2015 and 2016, combining computer-assisted and qualitative content analysis. My findings reveal, firstly, how and in what circumstances the discourse on the terrorism threat is conflated with the discourse on migration. Then, the in-depth analysis of causal links in the coverage of four main terror attacks in Europe shows the predominance of a chain of causation linking terrorism to new migrants and refugees. Given the limited empirical research informing the debate over the migration–terrorism nexus, this study contributes to a better understanding of the process of social construction of migrants as threat objects.

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Zerback

2022

Handbuch Politische Kommunikation

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Did the European Migrant Crisis Change News Coverage of Immigration? A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigration Television News and the Actors Speaking in It

Cited by 23 publications

References 52 publications

Between Conflict and Solidarity: Pandemic Media Coverage of Romanian Intra-EU Labour Migrants

Between Conflict and Solidarity: Pandemic Media Coverage of Romanian Intra-EU Labour Migrants

The migration–terrorism nexus: An analysis of German and Italian press coverage of the ‘refugee crisis’

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