Literature review Proposal” Examination of the media reporting of asylum seekers in Ireland: Abstract: Media representations have taken different forms, the dominant way in which asylum seekers have been represented is negative - asylum seekers are seen as spongers, 'bogus ', 'illegal 's – Asylum seekers have been represented as criminals, echoing the state 's treatment of Asylum seekers as 'criminalised ', and as posing a threat to the integrity of the state and nation. Nagarajan, 2013 argues that In 2002, for example, 25 percent of Daily Mail and 24 percent of Daily Express articles were about asylum and he further explain challenging this thinking seems hopeless, but each of us can start by refusing to use terms such as 'illegal …show more content…
Using data from the year 2002 till now .The researcher will consider how both broadsheet and tabloid print media have sought to explain the issues surrounding asylum seekers. The researcher analysis suggests that five key media frames are in evidence within Irish media discourse. Asylum seekers are represented as ‘‘an economic threat’’; ‘‘a threat to national and local integrity’; ‘a criminal element’; ‘a contaminant’ and as ‘illegal aliens’. This analysis of media constructions of asylum seekers is presented in the context of our interest in the media’s role in the formation of public opinion This study will also examines media portrayal of asylum and 'positive ' representations of Asylum seekers, recently with the wide media coverage of conditions in Direct Provision. The research is based on a detailed content analysis and discourse analysis of media coverage. In examining media coverage of asylum seekers the researcher is particularly interested in …show more content…
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