International Communication Gazette
2019
A security threat or an economic consequence? An analysis of the news framing of the European Union's refugee crisis (Article)
Kovář J.*
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Institute of International Relations, Prague, Czech Republic
Abstract
A developing literature on the securitisation of immigration documents the prominence of security-based framing, but its prevalence has not been systematically established in Central and Eastern Europe through an analysis of the relative importance of various immigration-related frames. Using content analysis, this study tests the securitisation of the immigration thesis in the coverage of the refugee crisis between 2013 and 2016 in Czech and Slovak media (N = 7,910), in particular focusing on frame variation over time, and on differences between quality and tabloid media. The results reveal that the security-threat frame is the dominant frame, while economic framing is significantly less frequent in regard to the topic. While both quality media and tabloids employ the security-threat frame often, it is significantly more prominent in tabloids. In sum, these results confirm the existence of a pre-eminent securitised interpretation of immigration in the region during the crisis. © The Author(s) 2019.
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DOI: 10.1177/1748048519832778
ISSN: 17480485
Cited by: 1
Original Language: English