News Media Reporting on Substance Use Among People of African Ethnicity in Three Australian States, 2003-2013

Horyniak, Danielle; Lim, Megan S C; Higgs, Peter

doi:10.22160/22035184/aras-2016-37-2/56-79

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“…This fits under the “safety and stability” domain and includes representations in the news, political speeches, talkback radio, letters to the editor, and so on. There is significant research on this in Australia (Budarick & Han, 2015; Han & Budarick, 2018; Hanson‐Easey et al, 2014; Horyniak et al, 2016; MacDonald, 2017; Nolan et al, 2018; Phillips, 2011; Windle, 2008). It indicates that negative news reporting impacts African migrants, from interactions with police, to employment opportunities, to reinforcing the negativity of the general population.…”

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“…MacDonald (2017) explains this in terms of spatial, relational and socio‐political exclusion. As noted, print media reporting of young people of African refugee backgrounds focuses on crime, violence, and substance use (Horyniak et al, 2016). However, on the positive side, African “ethnic minority” or “community” media is rapidly developing, focused on communicating within and across communities and seeking to positively affect the practices and understandings of the wider Australian community and journalists through the dissemination of positive stories (Budarick & Han, 2015; Han & Budarick, 2018; Hebbani & van Vuuren, 2015).…”

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Belonging in the land down under: Black Africans in Australia

Fozdar

2021

International Migration

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Black African migrants have recently become a visible presence in Australia. Many arrived through the humanitarian resettlement programme, but far greater numbers come through the “skilled stream”. This paper explores recent research into these populations to tease out how material, social and existential elements of settlement intersect with belonging. As a heuristic, it uses Ager and Strang's ten markers and means of integration: material aspects (employment, housing, education and health); social connections internally and externally; facilitators (language, cultural knowledge, safety, stability); and rights and citizenship. A range of challenges to positive settlement and integration are identified, using these domains. However, Australian research has focused almost exclusively on African migrants of refugee background, with most sampling South Sudanese, making generalization impossible, even dangerous. The urgent need for research using wider samples, and more large‐scale quantitative work, is called for and a range of policy recommendations suggested.

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Belonging in the land down under: Black Africans in Australia

Fozdar

2021

International Migration

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“…They found that newspaper reports have become more disapproving in nature with a focus on restrictions, trauma, prevention and drink driving. In a more targeted study focusing on the media reporting on AOD use among people of African ethnicity, Horyniak et al [11] found that alcohol‐related stories were the most common (68%) and often related to violence (47%) and crime (32%).…”

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Media reporting on alcohol and other drugs in Australia and the Mindframe guidelines: Baseline data

Sunderland

Kershaw

Ward

et al. 2023

Drug and Alcohol Review

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Introduction:The aim of this study was to generate a baseline database of print media reporting on alcohol and other drug (AOD) issues prior to the release of the Mindframe guidelines in March 2019. Specifically, to: (i) describe the content associated with media entries that focus on AOD use in Australian news media;(ii) determine how the media entries compare to several domains associated with recently developed Mindframe guidelines for publicly reporting on AOD; and (iii) identify content factors associated with different scores.Methods: Media entries between July 2016 and June 2017 were searched for key AOD-related terms using the Australian and New Zealand Newsstream database.Two coding schemes were developed to rate a stratified sample of 50% of the media entries against the Mindframe guidelines. Associations between content and total comparison scores were determined using linear regression models.Results: Detailed coding of the 2007 articles identified as relevant for the current study indicated that a majority (67%) were focused on one of three substances: alcohol, cannabis or methamphetamine. Most of the entries were either law enforcement (22%) or criminal justice related (19%). Entries that focused on methamphetamine scored significantly lower than entries on alcohol when compared to the Mindframe guidelines, similarly entries focused on crime/justice-related topics scored significantly lower than entries focused on positive outcomes.Discussion and Conclusions: A disproportionate number of print media entries, particularly those related methamphetamine use, focused on crime or justicerelated topics, potentially further contributing to stigma, and emphasising the legal consequences of AOD use.

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Minority Cosmopolitanism: Afro-Cosmopolitan Engagement Displayed by African Australians

Hersi

Woodward

Skrbiš

2020

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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Research on cosmopolitan practices and non-white refugee and migrant populations in Western nations often concentrates on how the mainstream 'host' culture practices openness and hospitality towards 'new' and minority populations. Reflecting the relationality at the heart of cosmopolitanism's conceptual promise, this research reverses the gaze back by exploring how minority populations who are 'locals' in ethnic hubs or enclaves practice openness towards 'non-locals' who otherwise constitute a dominant group nationally. Our article focuses on the black African Australian (AA) community in the suburb of Moorooka, known as a 'little Africa'. Moorooka's main strip is lined with various AA owned shops and restaurants, and with AAs going about their everyday lives. The suburb attracts negative news stories and is stereotyped as an undesirable ethnic enclave marred by crime, social problems and unemployment. Yet, Moorooka is also becoming a cosmopolitan destination for visitors to shop, explore and dine. We thematically analyse qualitative interviews with AAs to understand how they interact with non-AAs and why. Our research sheds new light on forms of openness and hospitality we call 'minority cosmopolitanism' that arises from the AA experience. Accordingly, we also highlight forms of Afro-cosmopolitanism that assists with a deeper understanding of the African diaspora.

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News Media Reporting on Substance Use Among People of African Ethnicity in Three Australian States, 2003-2013

Abstract: The media play an important role in influencing public opinion and community discourse about health issues.

Cited by 6 publications

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Belonging in the land down under: Black Africans in Australia

Belonging in the land down under: Black Africans in Australia

Media reporting on alcohol and other drugs in Australia and the Mindframe guidelines: Baseline data

Minority Cosmopolitanism: Afro-Cosmopolitan Engagement Displayed by African Australians

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