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Who is to blame? Stories of European Union migration governance in Italian, Maltese, and Spanish newspapers
In this article, Martina Abisso, examines how Southern European member states' newspapers portray European irregular migration governance. It highlights that blame games and the securitisation of migration to Europe are inextricably linked.
- Author
- Martina Abisso, Andrea Terlizzi & Eugenio Cusumano
- Date
- 12 August 2024
This article focuses on how European Union actors are portrayed in media coverage of migration across the Mediterranean by integrating framing into narrative analysis through the Narrative Policy Framework. The authors execute a content analysis of Italian, Maltese, and Spanish newspapers and identify the key narratives underlying the portrayal of specific EU actors.
This article highlights that blame games and the securitisation of migration to Europe are inextricably linked. The findings of this article include that the framing of irregular migration as a crisis or a threat coexists and overlaps with the tendency to offload the blame arising from the alleged failure to control borders onto EU institutions and other member states.
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