This article examines research carried out over the last 40 years in the area of media and migration in the British context. This thematic review of more than sixty empirical studies explores how UK media attention to the immigration issue has fluctuated over time, but has displayed consistent negativity in its terms of reference, exclusionary features and significant interpretative limitations, not least in the conflation of distinct types of migration.
History
School
Social Sciences
Department
Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
Sociology Compass
Citation
SMITH, D. and DEACON, D., 2018. Immigration and the British news media: Continuity or change? Sociology Compass, 12 (9), e12618.
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: SMITH, D. and DEACON, D., 2018. Immigration and the British news media: Continuity or change? Sociology Compass, 12 (9), e12618, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12618. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.