Media Framing of Integration in Belgian Newspapers

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ID21190416
AuthorsJoshua F Hoops (0000-0003-1046-6544, William Jewell College, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume49
Issue2
Pages172-189
Publication date2020-03-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Intercultural Communication Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1747-5759 • E-ISSN: 1747-5767
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17475759.2020.1729839
OpenAlexW3006815315
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited39

I deconstruct the distinctive facets of mediated framing of integration through a textual analysis of Flemish newspapers. Using Entman’s framing theory, I identified four primary integration frames: Fortress Europe, Streamlined Labour, Solipsistic Representation, and Competing Integration Frames. Specifically, I describe the ambivalence of media framing, which intertextually borrows from dominant representation of (im)migrants. The papers simultaneously frame integration as an assimilative social contract to be agreed to by (im)migrants and as a responsibility of the host society to integrate (im)migrants. Counter-framing, present in all four media frames, is critical to both dismantling systemic marginalization and ameliorating processes of integration

Ambivalence · Flemish · Geography · Journalism · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Media Studies and Communication · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology

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