Strangers Ante Portas : News Coverage of the European Refugee and Migrant Crisis in the Czech Broadsheet Daily Newspapers

URBÁNIKOVÁ, Marína and Michal TKACZYK. Strangers Ante Portas : News Coverage of the European Refugee and Migrant Crisis in the Czech Broadsheet Daily Newspapers. In Symposium on Media and Forced Migration (European Journal of Communication), University of Paris II, France. 2019.

Basic information

• Original name: Strangers Ante Portas : News Coverage of the European Refugee and Migrant Crisis in the Czech Broadsheet Daily Newspapers
• Authors: URBÁNIKOVÁ, Marína (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution) and Michal TKACZYK (616 Poland, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Symposium on Media and Forced Migration (European Journal of Communication), University of Paris II, France, 2019.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Requested lectures
• Field of Study: 50800 5.8 Media and communications
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/19:00109775
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Keywords in English: content analysis; Czech broadsheet newspapers; framing; media coverage; refugees and migrants
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

This article examines how the two most-read broadsheet daily newspapers framed the so-called refugee and migrant crisis in the Czech Republic, a country which has only minimal experience with refugees and migrants from the Middle East and Africa. Using hierarchical cluster analysis to identify the frames, the article explores the extent to which the framing described by previous studies carried out in Western and/or destination countries can also be identified in the Czech daily newspapers, and thus tests their relevance in a different geographical and cultural setting. The results show that the framing used by the Czech dailies closely corresponded to those described in previous research: dailies framed the refugee and migrant crisis mainly as a burden for the state and EU institutions, as a humanitarian crisis, and, to a lesser degree, as a security threat.

Links

• MUNI/A/1068/2018, interní kód MU: Name: Migration and Social Inequality: Cultural Sociological Perspectives (Acronym: MIGSI)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A