Writing Xenophobia
Immigration and the Print Media in Post-apartheid South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4903230 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ransford Danso, David A Mcdonald (0000-0003-1971-0427) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 115-137 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9887 • E-ISSN: 1527-1978 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/at.2001.0050 |
| OpenAlex | W4248303817 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 100 |
| References cited | 10 |
This paper discusses the print media’s coverage of cross-border migration in South Africa and how it may affect both public opinion and policymaking on the topic. The paper argues that coverage of international migration by the South African press has been largely anti-immigrant and unanalytical. Not all reportage is negative, and newspaper coverage would appear to be improving over time, but the overwhelming majority of the comprehensive collection of newspaper articles, editorials and letters to the editor sur-veyed for this research are negative about immigrants and immigration and are extremely unanalytical in nature, uncritically reproducing problematic statistics and assump-tions about crossborder migration in the region. Although it is impossible to draw direct causal links between this kind of anti-immigrant media coverage and anti-immigrant poli
Demographic economics · Economics · Immigration · Immigration policy · Media coverage · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Print media · Public opinion · Sociology · Xenophobia · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · Multilingual Education and Policy · South African History and Culture
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| Unique citing works | 76 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,35 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 70 |