This book examines how media shapes the public's perception of migration, exploring the framing strategies that dominate coverage and policy debates across Europe, with Italy as a focal case. Analyzing thirty years of media narratives, it delves into recurring framessuch as crime, humanitarianism, and security risksthat create narrow yet powerful interpretations of migration. Through a sociological lens and mixed-method analysis, the authors provide a model to understand these frames and their impact on public opinion, policy, and activism. This book will interest scholars, students, and practitioners in media studies, sociology, and political science.
1. Introduction.-
2. Framing and the social construction of migration in
a mediatized world.-
3. News frames.-
4. Media events and moral panic.-
5.
Framing the migration problem.-
6. Reframing migration: strategies and
agency.- 7.Conclusions.
Marco Binotto is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Social Research, at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He specialises in the dynamics of public opinion and the construction of social problems, with particular reference to migration. His expertise includes media advocacy, communication in the Third Sector, and media and cultural activism in social and solidarity economy.
Marco Bruno is Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His research focuses on journalism, mass media and cultural diversity (with particular reference to migratory processes and Islam), communication and political phenomena.
