Date: 2019
Type: Technical Report
What policy communication works for migration? Using values to depolarise
Technical Report, ICMPD report, 2019, [Migration Policy Centre]
DENNISON, James, What policy communication works for migration? Using values to depolarise, ICMPD report, 2019, [Migration Policy Centre] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75599
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Studies of communication regarding migration have overwhelmingly focused on negative or unrepresentative portrayals of migrants in media, which are argued to often be hyperbolic in order to garner additional readers or viewers, or by political actors using such frames for strategic electoral reasons (e.g. King and Wood, 2001; Blassnig et al., 2019). As such, academic research on migration communication has tended to be drawn from the fields of media studies or political science. Research considering when strategic communication for less, arguably, nefarious reasons is effective has been less developed. Despite that, or perhaps because of it, in recent years a number of advocacy groups and NGOs have produced guides to communicating on migration. Owing to their origin, either implicitly or explicitly these guides usually have had the aim of increasing the positivity to migrants or migration amongst the citizens and voters of host countries. For the same reason, they have typically been only partially rooted in robust or systematic scientific understandings of the relationship between types of communication and their effects on attitudes, though this does not necessarily reflect their credibility or usefulness.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75599
Series/Number: ICMPD report; 2019; [Migration Policy Centre]
Publisher: International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD)
Sponsorship and Funder information:
European Union
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