Abstract

AbstractThis paper examines English-language online newspapers from the UK, the USA and Australia and analyses the images of news articles about migration. To do so, the newspapersThe Guardian, USA TodayandThe Sydney Morning Heraldhave been chosen and news articles collected in August 2016. The corpus consists of 650 news articles comprising about half a million of words. From these, 1,300 images have been extracted, sorted into migration- and not migration-related images and then grouped thematically. Selected and high-frequency categories are examined in more detail, example images analysed more closely, and patterns found and common characteristics are discussed. Investigating a larger image corpus is rare in discourse analysis and is still missing for migration-related issues.

Highlights

  • Discussions about migration have been prevalent in the news especially since the last few years

  • This paper examines English-language online newspapers from the UK, the USA and Australia and analyses the images of news articles about migration

  • Across English-speaking countries, for example, the immigration debate of Mexicans is leading in the USA, the so-called “European migration crisis” of 2015 is an important issue in the United Kingdom and the arrivals of people by boats are taking a main role in such discussions in Australia

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Introduction

Discussions about migration have been prevalent in the news especially since the last few years. Across English-speaking countries, for example, the immigration debate of Mexicans is leading in the USA, the so-called “European migration crisis” of 2015 is an important issue in the United Kingdom and the arrivals of people by boats are taking a main role in such discussions in Australia. All these debates cover migration in a largely restrictive manner, ignoring that migration is about refugees and asylum seekers, but includes migrating workers, students or married partners, for instance. Conclusions are drawn for the implied consequences that these images have for the interpretation of the newspaper articles

Migration
Data selection and the corpus
Analysis of images
Borders and fences
Schmolz
Immigrants in general and migrant workers
Findings
Conclusion
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