TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - The migration-terrorism nexus: an analysis of German and Italian press coverage of the 'refugee crisis'
JO  - European journal of criminology
A1  - Galantino, Maria Grazia
SP  - 259
EP  - 281
VL  - 19
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1477-3708
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477370819896213
ID  - ref1
ER  -