Investigating the consequences of the key event “New Year’s Eve in Cologne” on crime reporting

Arendt, Florian; Brosius, Hans‐Bernd; Hauck, Patricia

doi:10.1007/s11616-017-0322-z

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“…After Cologne, newspaper reports of sexual offences involving migrants were shown to increase significantly (Arendt et al, 2017; Dietze, 2016), including some fabrications (Taylor, 2017). While German public discourse on migrant sexual threat predates Cologne (e.g.…”

Section: Male Migrants In Contemporary German News Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While German public discourse on migrant sexual threat predates Cologne (e.g. Panorama TV programme: Bolz and Jolmes, 2015), Arendt et al (2017) argue that after Cologne words describing the origin of a suspected criminal (foreigner, migration background, North African and asylum seeker) are mentioned significantly more often in major newspapers than before the incident, suggesting a strengthening of the association between immigration background and crime in German media culture.…”

Section: Male Migrants In Contemporary German News Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

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The end of ‘Welcome Culture’? How the Cologne assaults reframed Germany’s immigration discourse

Wigger

Yendell

Herbert

2021

European Journal of Communication

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Controversy over immigration and integration intensified in German news media following Chancellor Merkel’s response to the refugee crisis of 2015. Using multidimensional scaling of word associations in reporting across four national news publications in conjunction with key event, moral panic and framing theories, we argue that reporting of events at Cologne station on New Year’s Eve 2015–2016 reframed debate away from terror-related concerns and towards anxieties about the sexual predation of dark-skinned males, thus racializing immigration coverage and resonating with a long history of Orientalist stereotyping. We further identify an increased clustering of ‘race’, gender, religion, crowd-threat and national belonging terms in reporting on sexual harassment incidents following Cologne, suggesting an increased criminalization of immigration discourse. The article provides new empirically based insights into the dynamics of news media reporting on migrants in Germany and contributes to scholarly debates on media framing of migrants, sexuality and crime.

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Section: Male Migrants In Contemporary German News Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Male Migrants In Contemporary German News Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

The end of ‘Welcome Culture’? How the Cologne assaults reframed Germany’s immigration discourse

Wigger

Yendell

Herbert

2021

European Journal of Communication

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“…Dabei können gängige Interpretationsmuster herausgefordert und neue angeregt werden (Kepplinger 2011). Die Kölner Silvesternacht 2015/2016 und die Ereignisse in Chemnitz 2018 sind solche Schlüsselereignisse der jüngeren deutschen Geschichte, die ein disruptives Potenzial für den politischen Diskurs beinhalten (Arendt et al 2017). Wie wir mit Hilfe einer manuell kuratierten quantitativen Textanalyse gezeigt haben, wurden die Ereignisse in allen Landtagen diskutiert und noch Monate später immer wieder referenziert.…”

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„Seit Köln“, und „nach Chemnitz“ – Schlüsselereignisse im parlamentarischen Diskurs

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ZusammenfassungDie Kölner Silvesternacht 2015/2016 und die Vorfälle in Chemnitz 2018 sind Schlüsselereignisse der jüngeren deutschen Geschichte, die eng mit den Konflikten in der Migrations- und Integrationspolitik verbunden sind. Wir untersuchen die diskursive Verarbeitung dieser Ereignisse in den Landtagen. Dazu verbinden wir qualitative und quantitative Verfahren der Textanalyse und werten einen umfangreichen Korpus aller Plenardebatten aus, die seit den Silvesterereignissen in Köln stattfanden. Unsere quantitative Textanalyse zeigt, dass Köln und Chemnitz fortwährend im parlamentarischen Diskurs nachhallen. Mit einer Framing-Analyse identifizieren wir die Deutungsmuster der Parteien. Wir stellen fest, dass die Kölner Silvesternacht die bekannten parteipolitischen Deutungsmuster im parlamentarischen Diskurs zwar herausfordert nicht jedoch grundlegend verändert. Dagegen macht Chemnitz 2018 neue parteipolitische Interpretationsangebote, sowie eine zunehmende Polarisierung zwischen AfD und etablierten Parteien sichtbar.

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“…Readers of DIE ZEIT are middle-class liberals whose self-image tends to be marked by a general empathy for and a humanitarian stance towards refugees and forced migrants. Since the night of New Year's Eve in Cologne and the upsurge in right-wing extremism all over Western Europe, their empathy has increasingly turned to indifference at best or xenophobia at worst (Arendt/Brosius/Hauck 2017;Borneman/Ghassem-Fachandi 2017). Right-wing populism and far-right thoughts appeared to be gradually seeping into mainstream discourses and have become increasingly socially acceptable.…”

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Jahrbuch Migration und Gesellschaft / Yearbook Migration and Society 2020/2021

2021

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Investigating the consequences of the key event “New Year’s Eve in Cologne” on crime reporting

Cited by 45 publications

References 20 publications

The end of ‘Welcome Culture’? How the Cologne assaults reframed Germany’s immigration discourse

The end of ‘Welcome Culture’? How the Cologne assaults reframed Germany’s immigration discourse

„Seit Köln“, und „nach Chemnitz“ – Schlüsselereignisse im parlamentarischen Diskurs

Jahrbuch Migration und Gesellschaft / Yearbook Migration and Society 2020/2021

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