From ‘Illegals’ to ‘Unfortunates’: News Framing of Immigration and the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Crisis-stricken Greece

Kalfeli, Naya

doi:10.1108/978-1-83982-400-520201058

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“…Over the last decade, immigration has been among the most controversial topics on the Greek policy agenda and one of the principal issues that shape public discourse in Greece (Kalfeli, 2020). Media representations of immigration have played a significant role in how this complex issue is presented in the Greek public discourse as well as in how people perceive and respond to it.…”

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“…Respectively, 2014 was selected as the year of completion of the present study since from 2015 onwards, the so called ‘refugee crisis’ unfolded on the Greek shores, as a result of the significant increase in asylum seekers’ arrivals in Europe. In our view, this is a period with distinct characteristics and requires separate analysis (Kalfeli, 2020). To make sure that our sample did not include only negative events, collection of news stories for each one of the selected periods started many days before and after the incidents happened, with the exception of the first period, due to unavailability of data.…”

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“…It enriches the news agenda beyond current events and the guise of ‘reporting the facts’ and broadens the range of sources and voices used in the news beyond officials and technocratic experts. It provides comprehensive reporting on the roots of a conflict, while simultaneously reveals its long-term consequences and possible solutions (Kalfeli, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This condition was further deteriorated by different external and internal factors. Greece's poor migration policies and serious weaknesses in processing asylum seekers' requests, the European Dublin system under the first-country-of-arrival rule and an unprecedented financial, political, and social crisis that hit Greece, in 2009, soon led to rising social and political tensions around immigration in major urban centers and especially in central Athens (Kalfeli, 2020).…”

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Expanding peace journalism: A new model for analyzing media representations of immigration

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This article aims to expand peace journalism scholarship by proposing a new peace journalism model for analyzing media representations of immigration. By employing framing and content analysis, the paper takes a closer look at the ways in which four Greek newspapers portrayed immigration in crisis-stricken Greece between 2011 and 2014. Results indicate that a conflict frame prevailed in the majority of all newspaper articles analyzed. In this context, immigration was portrayed (1) as an issue that generated conflict among different political and social groups, (2) through stereotypical portrayals of immigrants as a threat to public health and security, (3) as a mass of people in extreme conditions of exception, and (4) as a problem to almost every aspect of the Greek society: for tourism, trade, the economy or even Greece’s relationship with the EU. A peace frame, conversely, was identified in around one fourth of all news stories. At the same time, findings lead us to conclusions that transcend the peace and conflict journalism dualism revealing five distinct subframes that provide a more nuanced understanding of the peace journalism concept; (1) a ‘direct conflict subframe’ enhancing division and dispute over immigration, (2) a ‘journalism of conventions subframe’ following well-established journalistic conventions with important consequences on the quality of information, (3) a ‘journalism of values subframe’ being closer to the traditional values of journalism, (4) a ‘diversity journalism subframe’, including all elements referring to a pro-immigrant approach, and (5) a ‘positive peace subframe’, closer to Galtung’s notion of positive peace.

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“…Less frequently, and especially during the 2015 European "refugee crisis", as the drama of thousands of people unfolded on Mediterranean coasts and in contrast to previous years, refugees were more often portrayed as innocent victims of war and persecution who were fleeing for their lives (Franquet Dos Santos Silva et al 2018) and as those in need and in danger (Kalfeli 2020). In the end, however, even if waves of sympathy and compassion were common in media discourse throughout this era (Greussing and Boomgaarden 2017), the media continued to portray refugees stereotypically as either victims or threats-never as fellow humans, to quote Chouliaraki and Zaborowski 2017, p. 4).…”

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Victims of a Human Tragedy or “Objects” of Migrant Smuggling? Media Framing of Greece’s Deadliest Migrant Shipwreck in Pylos’ Dark Waters

Kalfeli,

Angeli,

Frangonikolopoulos

2024

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Refugee and migration crises has been an integral part of the continuous and successive crises that the world has been experiencing. Media has played a crucial role in shaping public opinion over migration and asylum-seeking. Within this context, this paper aims to discuss Greek media coverage of the migrant shipwreck off the Greek coast of Pylos, in June 2023, in which more than 600 people mostly from Syria, Egypt, and Pakistan are thought to have drowned. Based on data from a quantitative content analysis and a sample of news stories stemming from the online version of five Greek news media outlets, representing diverse political spaces, a broader set of criteria for content analysis, including the absence of refugee and migrant voice in media content, dehumanization, absence of solutions and context, among many others, was used in order to explore how the Greek media framed what has been labeled as one of the deadliest migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean. Results revealed (i) frames of dehumanization, (ii) insufficient reporting of injustice and discrimination stemming from (state) structures and practices, and an (iii) overemphasis on migrant smuggling.

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Between Two Crises: News Framing of Migration during the Greek-Turkish Border Crisis and COVID-19 in Greece

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From ‘Illegals’ to ‘Unfortunates’: News Framing of Immigration and the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Crisis-stricken Greece

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

Expanding peace journalism: A new model for analyzing media representations of immigration

Expanding peace journalism: A new model for analyzing media representations of immigration

Victims of a Human Tragedy or “Objects” of Migrant Smuggling? Media Framing of Greece’s Deadliest Migrant Shipwreck in Pylos’ Dark Waters

Between Two Crises: News Framing of Migration during the Greek-Turkish Border Crisis and COVID-19 in Greece

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