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4. Media, Migrants and Movement: A Comparative Study of the Coverage of Migration Between Two Pairs of Sub-Saharan Countries

Authors : William Bird, Thandi Smith, Sarah Findlay

Published in: Mediating Xenophobia in Africa

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

News media play a fundamental role in shaping discourses across a wide range of public interests. This chapter analyses how issues of migration are reported by 14 online news media in four African countries, namely South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Tanzania. The media were monitored and analysed over a six-month period. Results indicate that in all four countries, stories about migration were dominated by political and legal approaches, and by the voices and views of the sociopolitical elite. The coverage failed to explore the opinions of the very people most affected by migration and thus presented a very narrow and simplistic view of migration issues.

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Title: Media, Migrants and Movement: A Comparative Study of the Coverage of Migration Between Two Pairs of Sub-Saharan Countries
Authors: William Bird
Thandi Smith
Sarah Findlay
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Mediating Xenophobia in Africa
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-61235-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-61236-8

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61236-8_4