Media, migration and public opinion : : myths, prejudices and the challenge of attaining mutual understanding between Europe and North Africa / / Ivan Ureta (ed.).

• TeilnehmendeR: Ureta, Ivan.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Sensitive issues like migration and human mobility provoke paradigms and prejudices in public opinion. Media, Migration and Public Opinion is a collective effort of academic criticism to over-come these myths. The main motive of this book is linked to the fact that migration, media and public opinion related issues focusing on North Africa have not been addressed properly by available literature. Against this background, the objective of Media, Migration and Public Opinion pursues three aims: Firstly, it fills a gap in the scholarly literature regarding media, political communication and migration by shifting the focus to the North African countries Morocco, Algeria and Libya. Secondly, it assesses to what extent the paradigms of the «other» and its characterization as a source of problems established in receiving countries are also present in sending and transit countries. Thirdly, the book puts North African issues in relation to European countries by presenting case-studies focused on Spain, Malta and Switzerland in order to raise commonalities and differences.

Table of Contents

Politics of media management in the three Maghreb countries : Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia / Vicken Cheterian -- Media's role and influence on migratory policies in the Maghreb / Davide Vignati -- The illegal immigrant : victim/hero : an analytical study on content of two Algerian daily newspapers : el Chourouk (Arabic) and el Watan (French) / Assia Kaced -- Press and migration in Algeria : a study of newspapers articles : expression and Ennahar el Djadid in 2008 / Hocine Labdelaoui -- The effects of the media on Moroccan migration / Moha Ennaji -- Analysis on the possible impacts of icts in migratory contexts with a focus on North Africa / Ivan Ureta -- Media impact on development and illegal migration in Libya / Taeib A. El-Bahloul -- Informative treatment of immigration and intercultural dynamics of Spanish mass media / Nicolas Lorite -- Producing immigration news in receiving countries : beyond journalists' professional ideology and cultural explanations / Carmen Sammut -- Public discourse and the raising of Islamophobia : the Swiss case / Ivan Ureta and Annemarie Profanter.