Media, Migration and Politics: A Comparative Study of Media Representations of Immigrants in Australia and Germany

Media, Migration and Politics: A Comparative Study of Media Representations of Immigrants in Australia and Germany is a research partnership between the University of Melbourne and the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) represented by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (HU-BIM).

The project aims at analyzing migration to destination countries in the industrialized West, specifically Australia and Germany. The key focus of this project is to conduct a critical media analysis of immigrant representation, focusing on the Turkish, Arab and North African representations in the media using qualitative and quantitative content analysis and critical discourse analysis. Immigrant representations in the media have been subject to scholarly work in the past, however media representations of immigrants and refugees in a comparative perspective have been scarcely studied. Our research collaboration aims to fill this gap by providing a comparative study of media representations of immigrants in Australia and Germany.