@article{ref1,
title="The migration-terrorism nexus: an analysis of German and Italian press coverage of the 'refugee crisis'",
journal="European journal of criminology",
year="2022",
author="Galantino, Maria Grazia",
volume="19",
number="2",
pages="259-281",
abstract="Over the last few years, terrorist attacks in European cities, together with the so-called 'refugee crisis', have (re)ignited a debate on whether there is an association between the two issues. Drawing on sociological approaches to risk and uncertainty, I claim that the discursive construction of causal linkages connecting refugees and migrants to terrorist activities is a fundamental passage in the process of social construction of migration as a threat. To identify the terrorism-migration linkages constructed in/through the media, this article examines the coverage of migration issues in two Italian and two German newspapers in 2015 and 2016, combining computer-assisted and qualitative content analysis. My findings reveal, firstly, how and in what circumstances the discourse on the terrorism threat is conflated with the discourse on migration. Then, the in-depth analysis of causal links in the coverage of four main terror attacks in Europe shows the predominance of a chain of causation linking terrorism to new migrants and refugees. Given the limited empirical research informing the debate over the migration-terrorism nexus, this study contributes to a better understanding of the process of social construction of migrants as threat objects.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1477-3708",
doi="10.1177/1477370819896213",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477370819896213"
}