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Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe book cover

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Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe

By Manlio Cinalli, Hans-Jörg Trenz, Verena Brändle, Olga Eisele, Christian Lahusen Copyright 2021
220 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book examines the ‘European refugee crisis’, offering an in-depth comparative analysis of how public attitudes towards refugees and humanitarian dispositions are shaped by political news coverage. An international team of authors address the role of the media in contesting solidarity towards refugees from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Focusing on the public sphere, the book... Read more
  1. Introduction: A Divided Europe? Solidarity contestation in the public domain

    2. Part I

  2. Debating solidarity across borders: the public sphere and role of the media

  3. Claims-making analysis and its applications in media and communication studies

  4. Solidarity under siege: The ‘Refugee Crisis’ in the news media

  5. Bottom-up solidarity contestation through social media: How Facebook users respond to political news

    6. Part II

  6. Solidarity Contestation in Switzerland: Fragmented news – fragmented solidarity?

  7. Contesting Refugee Solidarity in Germany - ‘Can We Really Do It?’

  8. Solidarity contestation in Denmark: A national escape from transnational crisis

  9. Solidarity contestation in France: bottom-up polarisation and segmentation

  10. Solidarity contestation in Greece: Standing on n the verge of emergency

  11. Solidarity contestation Italy: a dual debate between regulatory and confrontational discussions

  12. Solidarity contestation in Poland: The categorical denial of responsibility

  13. Solidarity contestation in the UK: Reluctance during political uncertainty

  14. Conclusion: The divided Europe of solidarity contestation

Biography

Manlio Cinalli holds a Chair of Sociology at the University of Milan and is Associate Research Director at CEVIPOF (CNRS – UMR 7048), Sciences Po Paris. He is the author of Political Integration of Muslims in France (Palgrave, 2017), and has published widely on citizenship in international journals.

Hans-Jörg Trenz is Professor at the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen and at ARENA – Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. His main field of interests are European media and the public sphere, migration and ethnic minorities, cultural and political sociology.

Verena K. Brändle is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna and recipient of an International Postdoctoral Grant by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. Her main research interests focus on critical migration studies and political communication.

Olga Eisele is Postdoctoral Researcher at Vienna University. In her work, she focusses on media discourses, the European Union, crisis communication and the relationship and mutual influence of media and politics.

Christian Lahusen holds a Chair of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts at Siegen University, Germany. His research interests include social theories, political sociology and the sociology of European societies and European integration.

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