Media representations of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants: a meta-analysis of research

Seo, Soomin; Kavakli, Sezgi Başak

doi:10.1080/23808985.2022.2096663

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“…By presenting examples of media representation of immigrants and immigration in South Africa, I am not suggesting that there is a direct causal link between these contents and xenophobic incidents on the ground but to suggest that media content on foreigners tend to frame discourse and action taken against non‐South Africans. There is ample academic literature internationally that established a relation between media depictions of a particular group and how that particular group is perceived and treated by the larger society (Chiumbu, 2018; Cisneros, 2008; Seo & Sezgi Kavakli, 2022; Wright, 2002).…”

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Structural forces shape xenophobia in South Africa: Looking beyond the human agent

Tewolde

2023

Int Social Sci J

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In examining xenophobia in South Africa, scholars have advanced various theoretical explanations to make sense of its causes and nature. Within this paper, I focus on the ways in which multiple structural arrangements create conditions for the manifestation of xenophobia in post‐apartheid South Africa. By drawing on Louis Althusser's notion of ‘interpellation’ and Judith Butler's concept of ‘the subject,’ I disconnect xenophobia in South Africa from the conscious and autonomous human agent and locate it within larger structural frameworks, namely historical residues of othering, neo‐liberal political economy, the exclusionary state and negative media representations of refugees and migrants. I argue that voluntary, conscious attitudes do not primarily lead to violence or other forms of exclusion as some may argue; instead, a constellation of systemic/structural forces shape and inform xenophobic attitudes and violence. This paper asks scholars to look more deeply into the relationship between exclusion/violence and structural constraints than perhaps they have.

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Section: Media Representations Of Non‐south Africansmentioning

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Structural forces shape xenophobia in South Africa: Looking beyond the human agent

Tewolde

2023

Int Social Sci J

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“…Noticeably, negative media messaging is not limited to Australia (Klocker & Dunn, 2003) with security threat, fear, and terrorism forming the predominant messaging regarding refugee intake in Czech and Slovak media (Kovář, 2020) and U.S. media (Colomé-Menéndez et al, 2021), while illegality and criminality has been salient in Macedonian media (Bosilov & Drakaki, 2018). Media's role in promoting terrorism has been criticized internationally as a symbiotic relationship promoting securitization and threat narratives and excluding the refugee voice (Seo & Kavakli, 2022). In the United States, the use of torture to deal with suspected terrorists became a securitized issue in the years following 9/11.…”

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Refugee oppression in media and politics: Vicarious trauma, burnout, and opportunities to thrive in refugee advocates.

Harding,

Fitzpatrick,

McCormack

2024

Traumatology

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“…While media framing of immigration, immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers has been widely studied (Eberl et al, 2018;Seo and Kavakli, 2022), immigrant rights movements have only relatively recently been integrated into social movement scholarship (Mora et al, 2018). Pro-immigration SMOs tailor their framing to different audiences in order to address "four categories of aims: educating and persuading the general public, engaging non-supporters through dialogue, supporting and organizing migrants as activists, and building cooperative relationships with the authorities" (DeTurk, 2023).…”

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Framing Social Movements on Social Media

Mendelsohn,

Vijan,

Card

et al. 2024

JQD

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Social media enables activists to directly communicate with the public and provides a space for movement leaders, participants, bystanders, and opponents to collectively construct and contest narratives. Focusing on Twitter messages from social movements surrounding three issues in 2018-2019 (guns, immigration, and LGBTQ rights), we create a codebook, annotated dataset, and computational models to detect diagnostic (problem identification and attribution), prognostic (proposed solutions and tactics), and motivational (calls to action) framing strategies. We conduct an in-depth unsupervised linguistic analysis of each framing strategy, and uncover cross-movement similarities in associations between framing and linguistic features such as pronouns and deontic modal verbs. Finally, we compare framing strategies across issues and other social, cultural, and interactional contexts. For example, we show that diagnostic framing is more common in replies than original broadcast posts, and that social movement organizations focus much more on prognostic and motivational framing than journalists and ordinary citizens.

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Media representations of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants: a meta-analysis of research

Cited by 6 publications

References 107 publications

Structural forces shape xenophobia in South Africa: Looking beyond the human agent

Structural forces shape xenophobia in South Africa: Looking beyond the human agent

Refugee oppression in media and politics: Vicarious trauma, burnout, and opportunities to thrive in refugee advocates.

Framing Social Movements on Social Media

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