Media, Migration and Public Opinion

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.

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Ivan Ureta is a formerly Senior Researcher at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, University of Lugano. Currently he works as a Teaching and Research Fellow at the Middle East and Mediterranean Studies Program, King s College London, as a Research Fellow at the World Habitat Research Centre, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland and as an Associate Professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy.

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Contents: Vicken Cheterian: Politics of Media Management in the Three Maghreb Countries: Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia - Davide Vignati: Media's Role and Influence on Migratory Policies in the Maghreb - Assia Kaced: The Illegal Immigrant: Victim/Hero. An Analytical Study on Content of Two Algerian Daily Newspapers: El Chourouk (Arabic) and El Watan (French) - Hocine Labdelaoui: Press and Migration in Algeria. A Study of Newspapers Articles: Expression and Ennahar El Djadid in 2008 - Moha Ennaji: The Effects of the Media on Moroccan Migration - Ivan Ureta: Analysis on the Possible Impacts of ICTs in Migratory Contexts With a Focus on North Africa - Taeib A. El-Bahloul: Media Impact on Development and Illegal Migration in Libya - Nicolás Lorite: Informative Treatment of Immigration and Intercultural Dynamics of Spanish Mass Media - Carmen Sammut: Producing Immigration News in Receiving Countries: Beyond Journalists' Professional Ideology and Cultural Explanations - Ivan Ureta/Annemarie Profanter: Public Discourse and the Raising of Islamophobia: The Swiss Case.