Perceptions and newspaper coverage of Syrian refugees in Turkey

Yaylacı, Filiz Göktuna; Karakuş, Mine

doi:10.33182/ml.v12i3.277

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“…As we interrogate when migration is framed as a crisis, or when it becomes a security issue (Koser 2011), we also explore when it becomes an overarching framework through the successive iteration of crises. While numerous studies have worked on the negative or positive framing of migrants and refugees to explain public attitudes in the context of the Syrian mass flight (Allen et al, 2019;de Rosa et al, 2021;Eberl et al, 2018;Göktuna Yaylacı & Karakuş, 2015), few have paid attention to the empirical emergence or non-emergence of crisis discourses (Colombo, 2018;Heidenreich et al, 2019). Nevertheless, a phenomenology of migration crisis discourses is crucial to unpack the construction of migration as crisis and reveals the dynamics of crisis and non-crisis making in public discourses.…”

Section: When Is the Migration Crisis?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Migration as Crisis

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Thiollet

2023

American Behavioral Scientist

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Over the past decades, and across different contexts worldwide, migration has become inseparable from a narrative of crisis. This article analyses the connection between migration and crisis. It proposes a migration as crisis framework, designed to understand and analyze the emergence of this specific perception of migration, on the basis of an interplay between social “subjective” constructions of reality and “objective” migration dynamics. Migration as crisis rests upon a fragmented, changing, and contested assemblage of events, representations, and practices, which in turn call for specific ways of governing migration. The link between migration and crisis can be activated or not, and may or may not be correlated with empirical realities. By engaging with migration as crisis (rather than migration crisis), the article denaturalizes and historicizes the relationship between migration and crisis, and unpacks the processes through which key actors (including media, policymakers, civil society, and academics) frame migration as such.

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Section: When Is the Migration Crisis?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Migration as Crisis

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Pécoud

Thiollet

2023

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…Regarding migrants' attitude (gratitude for the support received) no studies so far have liked media consumption to perceptions about this trait. One Turkish study on the framing of Syrian refugees (Yaylacı & Karakuş, 2015) did find that different frames are used by different newspapers, with some specifically emphasizing Syrians' gratitude towards Turkey. In Yaylacı and Karakuş (2015), newspaper content was not linked to public opinion.…”

Section: Linking Migrant Deservingness To News Media Consumptionmentioning

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“…One Turkish study on the framing of Syrian refugees (Yaylacı & Karakuş, 2015) did find that different frames are used by different newspapers, with some specifically emphasizing Syrians' gratitude towards Turkey. In Yaylacı and Karakuş (2015), newspaper content was not linked to public opinion. In terms of feelings of reciprocity (notion of migrant's having earned support from the destination society), previous studies have reported that news media use activates fears among host nationals regarding migrants' adverse impact on the national economy, individuals' personal finances or individuals' labour market position (Héricourt & Spielvogel, 2014).…”

Section: Linking Migrant Deservingness To News Media Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our study aims to bridge these gaps in the existing literature. Additionally, since different news outlets emphasize different frames in their portrayal of migrants (Eberl et al., 2018; Yaylacı & Karakuş, 2015), it is possible that consuming different types of news media cultivates diverging preferences for migrant settlement. For instance, experimental studies underscore the potency of negative frames in moulding public opinions about immigrants.…”

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CARIN' about migrants through news? Linking migrant deservingness to traditional and digital media consumption

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Duque,

Schwartz

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International Migration

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In recent years, public discourse and political actors have increasingly used a deservingness rhetoric to refer to the arrival and permanent settlement of migrant groups. However, scholars have drawn on the concept of deservingness without developing a clear theoretical framework for it. Following our recent work on the migrant deservingness framework, in the present study we use the CARIN criteria (Control, Attitude, Reciprocity, Identity, Need) to establish the extent to which host nationals in eight nations impose conditions towards accepting permanent settlement among migrants. Specifically, we examine the links of these deservingness perceptions with news media consumption in seven European countries and Colombia using online survey panel data (N = 12,142). Our findings indicate that consuming news via commercial television and in popular newspapers, in particular, is linked to greater conditionality regarding migrant settlement. Consuming public television or quality news sources is only weakly linked to (reduced) conditionality. We discuss these findings using the migrant deservingness framework.

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“…Likewise, studies focusing on particular media coverage of Syrian immigrants in Turkey demonstrate that refugee-focused frames involve portraying them as people in struggle or victims constituting burden and threat for hosting communities as well as scapegoats for problems such as poverty, class-based discrimination, crime, security concerns etc. (see Çağlar ve Özkır 2014;Doğanay ve Keneş, 2016;Dimitrova, Ozdora-Aksak ve Connolly-Ahern 2018;Göker ve Keskin, 2015;Sunata ve Yıldız 2018;Yaylacı ve Karakuş, 2015). From the perspective of immigrants, that the once humanitarian narrative has turned into a crisis-focused one (Koca Togral 2016), negative framing complicates the integration of immigrants in Turkey by making it more difficult to survive in the midst of such negative portrayal (e.g., Narlı et al, 2020).…”

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Siyasi Haber Alma Pratiklerinin Suriyeli Göçmenlerle İlgili Tehdit Algıları Üzerindeki Etkileri

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Tokdemir

2021

Marmara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilimler Dergisi

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In the case of individual attitudes towards immigrants' integration in a host country, how concerning processes and actors are represented in the media is of utmost importance given its potential influence on host communities' as well as external audiences' perceptions about threats associated with refugees. This is because the frames and metaphors media use in the presentation of the immigrants contribute to the understanding of ordinary citizens regarding the political, economic, and social causes of immigration. In this study, we investigate the influence of media exposure on threat perceptions about Syrian refugees and a potential boundary condition moderating this relationship, i.e., where citizens reside. To test our theoretical expectations, we focus on the case of Turkey, a country that shares 500-mile-long border with Syria and hosts around more than 4 million Syrians who fled a violent civil war, and we use an original face-to-face survey of residents of Gaziantep, Istanbul, and Diyarbakir. As these cities vary by number/density of immigrants as well as relative resources available to citizens and immigrants, we examine whether local context influences the role media exposure plays in individuals' perceived threat. Our findings based on the statistical analysis of the survey demonstrate that frequent use of mass media to acquire political news leads to higher threat perception about the immigrants, whereas frequent use of social media leads to lower levels of threat perceptions. Moreover, while mass vs. social media exposure differently influences threat perceptions about Syrian immigrants across the three cities examined, the observed effect of using mass media for getting political news is conditional on where the individual resides. Accordingly, the lower probability of direct contact with the immigrants increases the threat perception. In light of these findings, we acknowledge the need for a more detailed examination of both mass and social media sources in the acquisition of political news, as these sources have great impact in specifying how individuals' threat perceptions are shaped.

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Perceptions and newspaper coverage of Syrian refugees in Turkey

Cited by 31 publications

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Migration as Crisis

Migration as Crisis

CARIN' about migrants through news? Linking migrant deservingness to traditional and digital media consumption

Siyasi Haber Alma Pratiklerinin Suriyeli Göçmenlerle İlgili Tehdit Algıları Üzerindeki Etkileri

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