tripleC 18 (1): 478-493, 2020 http://www.triple-c.at
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1080
The “Refugee Crisis” as a Eurocentric Media Construct: An Exploratory Analysis of Pro-Migrant Media Representations in the Guardian and the New York Times
Maria Avraamidou
University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, mariaavraamidou@gmail.com
Abstract: This article presents a critical analysis of how two elite media publications in the United States and the United Kingdom, the New York Times and the Guardian/Observer re-spectively, represented the so-called European refugee crisis in their editorials. The study fore-grounds a media aporia of why Europe did not abide with human rights and democratic values vis-à-vis the refugee drama and a subsequent nostalgia for a European past of democracy and transnational unity that never really existed. These media representations, although sym-pathetic towards migrants, are inherently Eurocentric, helping to reproduce the existing repres-sive global migration regime because they do not see the crisis as a continuation of its coloni-ality but as a rupture.
Keywords: international media, refugee crisis, migration, Eurocentrism, qualitative media analysis
Acknowledgement: This work was supported by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, Grant Agreement: POST-DOC/0916/0115.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1080
The “Refugee Crisis” as a Eurocentric Media Construct: An Exploratory Analysis of Pro-Migrant Media Representations in the Guardian and the New York Times
Maria Avraamidou
University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, mariaavraamidou@gmail.com
Abstract: This article presents a critical analysis of how two elite media publications in the United States and the United Kingdom, the New York Times and the Guardian/Observer re-spectively, represented the so-called European refugee crisis in their editorials. The study fore-grounds a media aporia of why Europe did not abide with human rights and democratic values vis-à-vis the refugee drama and a subsequent nostalgia for a European past of democracy and transnational unity that never really existed. These media representations, although sym-pathetic towards migrants, are inherently Eurocentric, helping to reproduce the existing repres-sive global migration regime because they do not see the crisis as a continuation of its coloni-ality but as a rupture.
Keywords: international media, refugee crisis, migration, Eurocentrism, qualitative media analysis
Acknowledgement: This work was supported by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, Grant Agreement: POST-DOC/0916/0115.
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