Refugees and (im)migrants : (re)conceptualizing and (re)contextualizing migration in the media

Mance, Boris (author), Splichal, Slavko (author)

The article analyzes media coverage of migration and refugees from 2015 to 2022 in five selected European countries during the European migration crisis, the adoption of international agreements for their (political) solution, and the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Reporting on migra-tion is found to be primarily shaped by national political context and reflects the most important issues of the time, often portraying migration as a potential threat and invasion. The concepts of “migrant” and “refugee” often overlap in journalistic discourse, which confirms the absence of a clear conceptualization of migration in the media.

• Language: English
• Keywords: refugees, migrants, conceptualization, contextualization, media coverage, big-data analysis, stereotypes
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: Str. 515–532
• Numbering: Vol. 24, no. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-187160
• UDC: 314.151.3-054.73:07
• ISSN on article: 1556-2948
• DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2024.2324305
• COBISS.SI-ID: 192068611
• Publication date in RUL: 09.09.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Journal of immigrant & refugee studies : international, national, and regional theory, research, and practice
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 1556-2948
• COBISS.SI-ID: 16713190

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: begunci, migracijska politika, mediji, javno mnenje

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: H2020
• Project number: 870761
• Name: The right to international protection: a pendulum between globalization and nativization?
• Acronym: PROTECT