Media and Migration in Southeastern Europe Shaping Narratives and Policies

Media narratives and migration policies at a crossroads in Southeastern Europe

Pleios, G., Kostarella, I., Kalfeli, N., Tramountanis, A.

Part I: Media Narratives on Migration: Securitization, Criminalization, and Dehumanization

1. The Evolution of Media Coverage of Refugee/Migration Flows by the Greek Media and the Social Construction of “Refugee Crisis”

Pleios, G.

2. Media Representations of Syrian Refugees in Türkiye (2023-2025): Critical Discourse Analysis of Mainstream and Digital Media

İnceoğlu, Y. G.

3. The Representation of Migrants and Refugees in the Greek Cypriot Press: Assessing Media Debates and Public Opinion Trends 

Moutselos, M. & Maniou, T. A.

4. Framing Migration through Absence: Institutional Voices and the Marginalization of Migrants in Online Cypriot News Media

Melides, D.C., Papaioannou, T., Nicoli, N.

5. Media Representations of Migrant and Refugee Women in the Labor Market in Greece

Mastora, L. & Sidera, A.

Part II: Comparative Insights into Migration Coverage

6. Over a Decade of Refugee and Migrant Media Coverage in Greece: From Threat-Centered Framing Practices to “Humanitarianized” Anti-Migration Discourse

Kalfeli, N. & Angeli, C.

7. Representation of 2015 and 2022 migration flows in the German and Greek Press: A comparison    

Panagiotopoulou, R. & Becker, R.

8. A tale of a portrayal and two crises: Unravelling how migrants and refugees were represented in public discourse and media in Greece during the migratory flows at the Greek-Turkish land borders in Evros and the COVID-19 pandemic

Georgikopoulou, C. & Fouskas, T.

9. Asymmetrical Responsibility and Voice: Media Constructions of Migrants in Greek and International Coverage of the Pylos Shipwreck

Chatzikonstantinou, M. & Tastsoglou, M.

Part III: Journalists’ Perspectives on Migration

10. The Pylos Shipwreck: The Anatomy of a Journalistic Investigation

Christides, C. & Kostarella, I.

11. Migration Narrative in Bulgarian Online Media

Angova, S.

12. Migration Journalism in Turkey: Journalists’ Lived Experiences under Constraint

Algül, F.

13. How do threats against press freedom affect migration coverage in Greece?

Chauvet, R.

14. Media and Migration in Post-Migration Crisis Bulgaria: Between Kinopolitics and Post-Democracy

Krasteva, A. & Indzhov, I.

Part IV: The Politics of Migration Governance: Policy, Security, and Communication

15. Migration Information Campaigns as Soft Externalization: Legitimization Over Behavioral Change in EU Migration Governance

Tramountanis, A.

16. Only Fearmongering Remains Constant...

Fokas, N. & Varga, T.

17. Securitizing migration in Greece: Policy shifts and media narratives on Closed Controlled Access Centers

Chalkia, A.

18. Building Bridges: Policy Dynamics and Communication Strategies in EU Refugee Integration in Greece and Cyprus

Tokmakidou, X. & Tsolakidou, S.

Biography

George Pleios is Professor at the Department of Communication and Media Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Director of the Laboratory for Social in Mass Media and of the English Language MSc “Media and Refugee/Migration Flows”, Greece.

Ioanna Kostarella is an Associate Professor of Journalism at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Naya Kalfeli is a researcher in journalism studies focusing on ethics and the representation of minorities, with a long-standing research interest in refugee and migration issues, in Greece.

Angelo Tramountanis is a Researcher at the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE), Greece and coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Migration Research Unit (IMRU), Greece.