Abstract
An article based on excerpts from a chapter in the book, Bad News for Refugees by the Glasgow Media Group. It examines, in a detailed content analysis of sixty-nine articles in UK national papers in June 2011, how the rightwing press helped set the political agenda on immigration through a consistent conflation of issues of economic and forced migration, an emphasis on numbers as a threat, the pointing to migrants as an economic burden and potential criminals and a stress on the need for immigration controls.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 28-41 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Race & Class |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2013 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Asylum seeker
- Daily Express
- Daily Mail
- Human Rights Act
- Illegal immigrant
- Migration Watch
- Press coverage
- Sun
- Telegraph
