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Migration regularly features front and centre in the British media, and the media landscape plays a critical role in framing discourse on immigration<\/strong>. This Working Paper<\/em> analyses the emergence and dissemination of narratives on migration in the British media. It focuses on the coverage of three events: the Calais \u2018migrant crisis\u2019<\/strong> in the summer of 2015; the \u2018Windrush scandal\u2019<\/strong> in 2018; and the jihadist suicide bombing at Manchester Arena<\/strong> in 2017. Applying a mixed methods approach, this report examines narratives in the British press, on television and Twitter. This data is supplemented by interviews with journalists who reported on the events. The empirical analysis demonstrates the centrality of political actors and commentators in driving narratives on migration<\/strong> in the public domain via the media. It also suggests that dominant narratives corresponded with established public and political discourses on immigration in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This Working Paper analyses the emergence and dissemination of narratives on migration in the British media and social media, focusing on the coverage of three different events: the Calais \u2018migrant crisis\u2019 in the summer of 2015; the \u2018Windrush scandal\u2019 in 2018; and the jihadist suicide bombing at Manchester Arena in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1843,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"type_of_publication":[7],"topic":[13],"country":[24],"class_list":{"0":"post-1756","1":"publications","2":"type-publications","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"type_of_publication-working-papers","8":"topic-narratives-production","9":"country-united-kingdom","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publications"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications\/1756\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"type_of_publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type_of_publication?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}