CARIN' about migrants through news? Linking migrant deservingness to traditional and digital media consumption

Artikel

In recent years, public discourse and political actors have increasingly used a deservingness rhetoric to refer to the arrival and permanent settlement of migrant groups. However, scholars have drawn on the concept of deservingness without developing a clear theoretical framework for it. Following our recent work on the migrant deservingness framework, in the present study we use the CARIN criteria (Control, Attitude, Reciprocity, Identity, Need) to establish the extent to which host nationals in eight nations impose conditions towards accepting permanent settlement among migrants. Specifically, we examine the links of these deservingness perceptions with news media consumption in seven European countries and Colombia using online survey panel data (N = 12,142). Our findings indicate that consuming news via commercial television and in popular newspapers, in particular, is linked to greater conditionality regarding migrant settlement. Consuming public television or quality news sources is only weakly linked to (reduced) conditionality. We discuss these findings using the migrant deservingness framework.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: International Migration ; ISSN: 1468-2435 ; Volume: 62 ; Year: 2023 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 196-216 ; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): De Coninck, David ; Duque, Maria ; Schwartz, Seth J. ; d'Haenens, Leen
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Wiley
• (where): Hoboken, NJ
• (when): 2023

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1111/imig.13212
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET