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Framing Migration in Southern European Media: Perceptions of Spanish, Italian, and Greek Specialized Journalists

Journalism Practice, 2021

Greece, Italy, and Spain are the Southern European borders and the main entrances for migrants and refugees to Europe, a movement that was particularly visible after the 2015 "refugee crisis of the Mediterranean." In this context, immigration is used as a political tool, and the object of major media coverage. However, previous studies have shown that this coverage tends to be partial and prejudiced. This study, conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, uses the frame building theory to study the perceptions of journalists covering migration issues regarding ways to improve the representation of migrants in the media of these three countries. For that, in-depth interviews were conducted with 94 Greek, Italian, and Spanish journalists. The precarity of the profession, the focus on conflictive approaches, and discrimination based on national origin or religion are mentioned as the biggest challenges. Professionals covering this information demand more individualized and deeper coverage, giving the migrants' condition greater visibility, and giving voice to the migrants themselves, as they are the protagonists of the stories. Greater attention to journalistic ethics and the defense of vulnerable groups is considered essential to achieve this.

Media deliberation on intra-EU migration. A qualitative approach to framing based on rhetorical analysis

In this paper we investigate how the model of deliberation proposed by Isabela and Norman Fairclough can be used for a better clarification and understanding of the framing processes in media – especially in opinion articles. We thus aim at integrating theoretical contributions from critical discourse analysis and argumentation theory with standard approaches to framing, originating in media studies. We emphasize how a rhetorical approach to framing can provide analytical insights into framing processes and complement the typical quantitative approaches with qualitative analysis based on textual reconstruction. Starting from an issue-specific approach to framing, we discuss a particular case of framing of intra-EU migration, analyzing four opinion articles selected from a larger corpus of Romanian, British and French media. We highlight, along our analysis, various methodological options and analytical difficulties inherent to such an approach.

European Media and Migration-Related News: Comparing Discourse with Reality

2019

This study seeks to identify divergences between discourses of migration in European media (immigration and emigration) and objective reality. The research seeks to expand upon existing knowledge of the production processes behind news about migration (general migration and intra-EU migration) by analysing the degree to which both the salience and the framing of news about migration are aligned with real-world developments and key events. The researchers use semi-automated approaches to computational media analysis for six European countries: Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Poland and Romania.

Journalistic practices in the representation of Europe’s 2014–2016 migrant and refugee crisis

Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, 2018

Since its surge in 2014, the migrant and refugee crisis has been a major issue for the European community, not only impacting the geopolitical, economic, societal and humanitarian sectors but also challenging media practices, narratives and framings. This special issue investigates journalistic routines, norms and representations of migrants and refugees in western mainstream and digital media by questioning innovations in journalistic practices. Drawing on a wide range of case studies and various methodological approaches, the contributions in this issue, both from scholars and practitioners, analyse different journalistic ecosystems and visual narratives. Have stereotypical portrayals of migrants and refugees from previous episodes of massive displacement been challenged? How were the visual politics of migration shaped by a humanization discourse? To what extent did editorial choices and newswork routines adapt to this type of crisis reporting? How have media narratives shifted through several western contexts to engage audiences into this human tragedy? In the end, this issue aims at exploring a variety of dynamic approaches related to the media perspective on representations of migration and refugee studies, in the light of new potentials offered by storytelling and immersive forms of journalism.

Migrants and Media Newsmaking

The MEDIVA project seeks to strengthen the capacity of the media to reflect the increasing diversity of European societies and promote immigrant integration. To achieve this objective, the project will organize the knowledge produced so far and will create a searchable online database of all relevant studies on media and diversity/integration issues that will be made available for use by the media professionals as well as the general public. Building on the existing work and combining it with a series of in depth interviews with senior journalists across Europe, the MEDIVA project will generate a set of media monitoring indicators (which will be available in 8 languages) that can work for different media, in different countries, and that can provide the basis of a self-and other-assessment and future monitoring mechanism in the media. Four thematic reports will be written to reflect on how journalists and other media professionals deal with migrant diversity in five areas of their work: in recruitment/employment conditions; in training provided; as regards codes of ethics; in news making and programme production; in presenting diversity (news content). Finally, five Regional Workshops will bring together media professionals, NGOs and researchers to discuss the role of the media in promoting migrant integration.

Sending and receiving: The ethical framing of intra-EU migration in the European press

European Journal of Communication, 2010

Labour migration in the European Union (EU) has become a hot topic in public debates, particularly around the issue of European enlargement. The media are frequently criticized for stirring up debates around immigration but analysis has overlooked the underlying ethical justifications for migration controls. This article addresses this by developing an innovative approach that applies an ethical lens to media coverage of intra-EU migration. It shows how a generally narrow range of communitarian and cosmopolitan arguments are employed by the press in two European countries that occupy very different positions in the migratory system: Bulgaria and the UK. It finds a convergence of communitarian arguments across the case studies, and a significant importation of frames, reversing the roles of sending and receiving country.

The European "migration crisis " and the media A cross-European press content analysis

This report presents the main findings of our cross-European analysis of the press across eight European countries, as well as in the two main European Arabic language newspapers. This was a systematic content analysis which focussed on three peak moments in "the crisis": in the 2015 summer, early autumn and late autumn. Developing a content analysis of influential press in a six-month period, this report offers a cross-national comparative perspective on the dynamics of news reporting. The study consequently provides a comprehensive view of variations in the representation of migrants and refugees across national press cultures and across time, offering reflections on the implications these have on European media as spaces of representation for distant others. (see more on this project at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/research/Migration-and-the-media.aspx)

Migrants and Media Newsmaking Practices

Thematic Report 2011/02: Media Content. Robert Schuman Centre For Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence., 2012

The MEDIVA project seeks to strengthen the capacity of the media to reflect the increasing diversity of European societies and promote immigrant integration. To achieve this objective, the project will organize the knowledge produced so far and will create a searchable online database of all relevant studies on media and diversity/integration issues that will be made available for use by the media professionals as well as the general public. Building on the existing work and combining it with a series of in depth interviews with senior journalists across Europe, the MEDIVA project will generate a set of media monitoring indicators (which will be available in 8 languages) that can work for different media, in different countries, and that can provide the basis of a self-and other-assessment and future monitoring mechanism in the media. Four thematic reports will be written to reflect on how journalists and other media professionals deal with migrant diversity in five areas of their work: in recruitment/employment conditions; in training provided; as regards codes of ethics; in news making and programme production; in presenting diversity (news content). Finally, five Regional Workshops will bring together media professionals, NGOs and researchers to discuss the role of the media in promoting migrant integration. The MEDIVA project is hosted by the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and co-ordinated by Prof. Anna Triandafyllidou (anna.triandafyllidou@eui.eu ). The EUI and the RSCAS are not responsible for the opinion expressed by the author(s).

European Media Migration Report: How Media Cover Migration and Intra-EU Mobility in Terms of Salience, Sentiment and Framing

2019

This report offers a broad overview of migration discourses in European media for researchers in comparative media and migration studies, journalists, and migration policymakers. The authors focus on the concepts of salience, sentiment and framing to describe dynamics in media discourses in seven European countries: Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Hungary and Romania. The report makes use of a semi-automated approach to computational media analysis, and examines a wide range of media outlets over the period of 2003-2017. The analysis reveals a range of key patterns in migration coverage, including that migration issues tend to be more salient in the media of countries that receive large number of immigrants, compared to countries from which people emigrate; that coverage of intra-European migration tends to be more positive than coverage of migration in general; and that security concerns tend to dominate coverage of migration into the EU, whereas coverage of migration within the bloc tends to focus on economic issues.

Frames and Cleavages in Media Coverage of Migration

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2023

The analysis reported in this paper is part of a wider study in which we used the Event Registry news intelligence platform to provide a contextual insight into how the media around the world perceived and reported on migration in the period from 2015 to 2022. The analysis was mainly focused on five selected countries during the periods of the strongest waves of the European migration crisis and the adoption of international agreements for their (political) solution. Its main goal is to find out what are the basic tendencies in migration reporting and whether we are witnessing an increasing content similarity or diversification of news about migration in five different countries and languages: France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, and UK. We analyzed the similarity of media coverage based on the most prominent terms denoting individuals and concepts that appeared in news about "refugees" and "migrants", and contextual distances between them. The co-occurrence of both terms reveals that different migration periods and events are interpreted differently in the media of the studied countries. The clustering procedures carried out revealed some common cleavages in media discourses about migrants and/or refugees: national, regional (EU) and international (military conflicts) cleavages. Refugee (14,180) Human migration (8,729) Right of asylum (4,749) Government (4,445) Eur. migrant crisis (4,272) Border (3,,381) Police (3,109) Human migration (11,829) Refugee (9,476) Eur. migrant crisis (4,531) Right of asylum (4,161) Government (3,938) Border (3,630) Refugee (16,160) Vladimir Putin (5,485) Humanitarian aid (3,810) War in Donbas (3,760) Bombardment (3,559) Ukrainians (3,299) Border (3,267) Human migration (35,329) Refugee (16,749) Coronavirus (6,409) Government (5,939) Euro (5,619) Ukrainians (5,609) Border (5,249