Migration : How Does The Media Influence The Way Migrants Are Viewed?

The issue of illegal immigration is one of the hotly debated topics in almost every facet of society, especially among political leaders. This topic has also received huge media attention and reaction in the recent past including an article written by William Finnegan and published by The New Yorker. The article focuses on addressing the issue of borderlines and is based on the move by 17 Congress members, who wrote a letter on 28th April 2010 demanding an instant action from President Obama to enhance border security. While the increase in illegal immigration has declined in the recent past, there is still a great need to enhance border security, particularly in the as violence in the neighborhood of U.S. Mexico has continued to escalate at an alarming rate. Therefore, evaluating the need to improve border security to lessening illegal immigration is vital for enhancing the country's security and understanding its impacts on America's economy and labor force.

The media coverage in the United Kingdom especially in the present climate can be described as anti migrant and asylum seekers. There is a suggested sense of being under siege with threats of invasion of being overwhelmed via Calais. With Headlines such as ` Migrants 'threaten EU standards' ` (BBC News, 2015), and reports from the government does little to show a different image as the recent comment from `British Prime Minister David Cameron has defended his policy of restricting immigration, arguing that illegal migrants are trying to "break into" the country`. Regardless of the fact that there are little other means in which they can gain asylum but to enter illegally. In considering this I am not suggesting that one should have no systems in place to control and monitor immigration but feel that this negativity does not address that people have the right to claim asylum nor does it show positive images or outcomes of those that have made lives

In recent years, it has been increasingly apparent that European Parliament election turnout is on the decline, with just 35.6% of British citizens casting their vote in 2014. This is remarkably low, especially when viewed alongside other national decisions such as the referendum for Britain to leave the European Union, which received a staggering 72.2% turnout. However, this decline was not

News organization and Journalist have the ability to make the issue a principal. The way they make the issue more appealing to help shape people’s perception, causing someone to believe the Immigrants or Immigration in order to “understanding the mechanics behind framing is particularly important,” (132). For example, today in our society a lot of Americans worry about not getting an opportunity to have jobs and they’re pointing fingers on Immigrants because the media portrayed that a lot of foreign-born are taking the spot on job marketing. Clearly, every individual would agree that there are practically valuable in people’s lives. The result, the native Americans does not want Immigrants providing in U.S. economy. That is just an example of ways people think towards Immigrants, since the media have ability to frame and do a myth, whenever the journalist think a category on how to discuss an issue and then they decided to pay attention directly to targeted audiences. It appears in English language news tend to cover negative news about Immigration perhaps network companies developed these concepts that lead to effect on how individuals think directly to Immigrants.

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Anti-immigrant sentiment tends to arrive when waves of mass immigration occurs, the host societies believe that their jobs are being taken from them and that their standard of living is falling all because of the migrants that have come to live in the host country. Due to this anti-immigration sentiment can be seen to be a politically significant phenomenon in European societies since the second world war. Strong political opposition to immigration comes from populist-extremist parties (PEPs), they see immigration as a threat to the social and cultural cohesion of the host country. On the political spectrum most of these parties are right wing parties, somewhere between established conservative parties and openly violent and anti-democratic right wing parties. Over the past years in Europe these parties have been growing in power and during the past three waves of PEPs, they have slowly gained more and more power even though many thought they would die out. The first waves of PEPs come about after the second world war, in the immediate post war period the Sozialistiche Reichspartei party in West Germany was established however this was banned by he constitution later on. The second wave came int he 1970s with the National Front in the UK and the anti-tax parties in Scandinavia. The third wave came in the 1980s when a large number of parties emerged and have remained part of the political scene since then. This shows that anti-immigrant sentiment is politically significant in

When you hear about immigrants in the media many in America think of this quote “"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best. They're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they're telling us what we're getting."(CBS News) Unless you live underneath a rock you know this quote was said by Donald J. Trump during his presidential campaign in the 2016 election. This was heavily criticized by the media [besides Fox news which is honestly not surprising] for its outlandish and very fictional nature but it makes one question about how immigrants are portrayed in the media. What are immigrants really like? What do they do for America?

A recent survey was conducted which revealed that forty-one percent of Americans currently hold anti-immigrant sentiments. Similar trends were discovered for Europeans with thirty-seven percent of people in the United Kingdom and fifty-two percent of people in France expressing anti-immigrant attitudes (Krogstad, 2015). These trends show that negative views about immigrants are evident globally, and thus should be treated as an important issue. However, anti-immigrant attitudes are not involuntary and do not emerge from individual thought. Western nations, the United States in particular, use significant events in history such as the 9/11 attacks to their advantage by inciting extreme nationalism that demonizes immigrants which allows for the

This particular study started with the comparison of certain immigration news and articles in which three separate British newspapers had published in the entire year of 2003. The Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, and the Independent are the media sources in which this case is based

Gaining full membership of the European Union has multiple advantages, for example, tax-free trading among the member countries and visa-free travel inside the EU. Both of these advantages could easily be exploited though. With Turkey potentially becoming a member of the EU, the Schengen Area would be directly extended to the Turkish border with Syria and Iraq which would make it easier for criminals to enter and move within Europe without worrying about any border control. Gisela Stuart, British Labour Party politician, pointed out just how dangerous this would be for Britain and the other member countries. Other right-wing politicians, such as Penny Mordaunt from the British Conservative Party added: “A remain vote in this referendum is a vote to allow people from Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey to move here freely when they join the EU soon. Many of these countries have high crime rates, problems with gangs and terror cells as well as challenging levels of poverty.”. According to the Leave campaign, Turkey, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia and Macedonia would bring about 12,726,000 guns into the European single market. This data effectively supported the argument that Britain should exit the EU and take back control of their own country in order to keep the country safe.

The issue of whether or not the United Kingdom should remain a member of the European Union has been debated heavily over the past decade, with the debate heating up even more from the current European Sovereign Debt Crisis. Recent polls of the UK population showed that around half of the UK’s citizens would vote to pull out of the EU if it went to referendum. However, after all of the economic, political, and social advantages of being a member of the EU are considered, it remains clear that leaving the EU is not in the UK’s best interest. Economically, it does not make sense for the UK

The economic impact on immigration is a controversial topic in the modern political climate. In the United States, a candidate was elected even after he called Mexican immigrant rapists and criminals. Great Britain voted to leave the European Union on the precise of taking back who was entering the country. In the French Presidential election, a far-right nationalist candidate went to the second round of the presidential election and was able to capture 30% of the vote. Europe has seen the rise of far-right populist parties that have sought to force immigration reduces. However, the rhetoric of politicians have caused immigrants that would do agricultural work to leave which has put American farmers at a disadvantage.

The newspaper article from The Daily Telegraph has used emphasis on “Migrants” as their headline title. The purpose of this news article, initiated by Laura Hughes, the author, is to show her views about the Migrants’ unnecessary and unacceptable behaviours affect Britain’s communities and values. Another purpose of the newspaper article is to inform readers about the circumstances in Britain. There are some affordances in a newspaper article such as the credibility of the writing itself, and writers can deliver their opinions validly. Also allows a strong sense of the transaction between writer and reader. However, there are some limitations of a newspaper article such as; the use of one narrative voice can be misconstrued due to the absence

Commenting on UKIP’s popularity gain in the 2014 European election, Cushion (Cushion et al 2015: 320) attributes UKIP’s success in the election to be a result of the growth in the significance of issue voting. This is suggested in Figure 4, where the two most covered issues by television news agencies were policies both central to UKIP’s manifesto. Cushion argues that UKIP’s heavy concentration in the media contributed to their victory in the European election (Cushion et al 2015: 321). Considering UKIP’s lack of a traditional partisan base of voters, it can be concluded that their ability to win the majority of votes in the 2014 European election was most likely owing to their ability to resonate with British voters, who are now less partisan and more inclined to vote based on how a party deals with one or two key salient issues, on the matters of immigration and the EU independence

“The media are a primary source of those pictures in our heads about the larger world of public affairs, a world that for most citizens is ‘out of reach, out sight, out of mind’ and what we know about the world is largely based on what the media decide to tell us” (McCombs).