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Volume 20, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 1740-8296
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Abstract

This study analyses 14,854 news articles about refugees from 72 English-language newspapers worldwide in 2016. Using a combination of topic modelling and network analysis, we inductively identify the frames used to depict refugees and then examine the factors that help shape the news framing of the issue between various countries. We unveiled five frames: cultural and everyday life, Global North politics, aid, violence and international conflict. We also identified significant correlations between distance to country of origin and political stability and news frame usage, giving insights into the political, economic and cultural contexts that interact in the frame-building stage of the coverage of refugees in different countries. From a theoretical perspective, this study advances the understanding of news coverage of refugees, particularly the differences emerging between the Global North and the Global South countries.

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Not all refugees are framed equal: Explaining the difference between the news coverage in the Global North and the Global South
International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics 20, 45 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/macp_00088_1
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Keyword(s): immigration; international mobility; international press; machine learning; news content; topic modeling

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