Contextualizing the Crisis: The Framing of Syrian Refugees in Canadian Print Media

Wallace, Rebecca

doi:10.1017/s0008423917001482

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“…Prior research suggests that frame usage in immigration news is highly dependent on immigrant group, news outlet, and context (see, e.g., Heidenreich et al, 2019;Jacobs, Meeusen, and D'Haenens, 2018;Kroon, Trilling, Van Selm, and Vliegenthart, 2019;Lind and Meltzer, 2020;Wallace, 2018). Yet, several overarching frame-clusters reoccur.…”

Section: Immigration Discourses In Mass Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

New perspective? Comparing frame occurrence in online and traditional news media reporting on Europe’s “Migration Crisis”

Czymara

Klingeren

2021

Communications

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News media have transformed over the last decades, there being increasing numbers of online news suppliers and an increase in online news consumption. We examine how reporting on immigration differs between popular German online and print media over three crucial years of the so-called immigration crisis from 2015 to 2017. This study extends knowledge on the framing of the crisis by examining a period covering the start, peak, and time after the intake of refugees. Moreover, we establish whether online and print reporting differs in terms of both frame occurrence and variability. The period of the crisis provided an ideal test to see whether the focus of media reporting differed between online and print sources. Employing a most- similar- cases design based on (autonomous) online and print versions of three major German news outlets, we extract the dominant frames in almost 18,500 articles using algorithm-based topic modelling. While results indicate that many frames are more visible in either online or print media, these differences often do not follow theoretical expectations. Furthermore, online media are dominated by particular frames and, hence, show less diversity than print media. However, important key events happening during our period of investigation do not affect overall diversity of frames.

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Section: Immigration Discourses In Mass Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

New perspective? Comparing frame occurrence in online and traditional news media reporting on Europe’s “Migration Crisis”

Czymara

Klingeren

2021

Communications

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“…The option to privately sponsor gained increased traction amongst the Canadian public, and refugee issues became a focal point in the 2015 federal election (Alboim, 2016). Prior to the release of the Kurdi photo, in 2014, issues in Syria were generally framed in terms of war and conflict rather than Canada's need to become involved on a humanitarian level (Wallace, 2018). Information from the Conservative government regarding the refugee resettlement process was often limited as well as confusing (Alboim, 2016).…”

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Exporting Canadian immigration policy: a comparative analysis of private sponsorship methods in Canada, the U.K. and Germany

Somers¹

2021

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The private sponsorship of refugees (PSR) model, created in Canada 40 years ago, has a structure which allows citizens and permanent residents concerned about refugee resettlement to take action in their local communities by sponsoring refugees and providing them with financial, social and integration support. This paper critically analyzes and compares the private sponsorship of refugees (PSR) model in Canada, the United Kingdom (U.K.) and Germany and how it is being promoted, portrayed and received in each country. I argue that the PSR model should be a refugee resettlement option provided that the number of refugees admitted through this stream should not surpass the number of refugees admitted through government sponsorship; effective oversight and evaluation should be administered by governments and NGOs over groups and communities involved in sponsorship; and, diverse images and perspectives of refugees themselves should be used in the promotional material from governments and NGOs about private sponsorship. Key words: Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, private sponsorship, refugee, immigration policy, refugee resettlement

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“…Though the arrival of Syrian refugees cannot be compared to that of the Chinese and Tamil refugees in 1999 and 2009, recent studies on the representation of Syrian refugees in Canadian media, social media, and parliamentary discourse have yielded some discouraging conclusions. Tyyska et al (2017) and Wallace (2018) had looked at the Canadian coverage of the Syrian refugee crises. Overall, three themes emerged in the Canadian media's coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis:…”

Section: Refugees In Canadian News Mediamentioning

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#WelcomeRefugees: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Refugee Resettlement Initiative in Canadian News

Mustafa

Pilus

2020

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This study focuses on the frames utilized in the depiction of Syrian refugees and social and political actors involved in the Syrian resettlement in Canadian online news media. The role of the media is vital in portraying Syrian refugees' image and affects how the Canadian public perceives them. This paper focuses on utilizing the referential and predicational strategies introduced by the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) in framing the Syrian refugees, Liberal government, Conservative party, Canadians, and Canada (henceforth social and political actors). This study examines a total of 31 articles selected from three of the most visited Canadian news sites, namely, the Toronto Star, the Toronto Sun, and the National Post. News articles were collected beginning from the arrival of the first group of refugees in December 2015 and ending in March 2017, which marked the first anniversary of the refugees' arrival. The results obtained show that both liberal and conservative-leaning media utilized frames in ways that correspond with their ideological stance. In most cases, the limelight rarely focused on Syrian refugees. Instead, they were used as props to push the news source's ideological convictions and to condemn and shame the opposition. Therefore, it is understood, that the framing and portrayal of refugees in this narrow manner through discursive strategies obscures the complexity of the plight of Syrian refugees and depicts them as one-dimensional characters that audiences would either fear or pity.

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Contextualizing the Crisis: The Framing of Syrian Refugees in Canadian Print Media

Cited by 52 publications

References 33 publications

New perspective? Comparing frame occurrence in online and traditional news media reporting on Europe’s “Migration Crisis”

New perspective? Comparing frame occurrence in online and traditional news media reporting on Europe’s “Migration Crisis”

Exporting Canadian immigration policy: a comparative analysis of private sponsorship methods in Canada, the U.K. and Germany

#WelcomeRefugees: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Refugee Resettlement Initiative in Canadian News

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