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This book offers a comprehensive portrait of French and American journalists in action as they grapple with how to report and comment on one of the most important issues of our era. Drawing on interviews with leading journalists and analyses of an extensive sample of newspaper and television coverage since the early 1970s, Rodney Benson shows how the immigration debate has become increasingly focused on the dramatic, emotion-laden frames of humanitarianism and public order. In both countries, less commercialized media tend to offer the most in-depth, multi-perspective and critical news. Benson challenges classic liberalism's assumptions about state intervention's chilling effects on the press, suggests costs as well as benefits to the current vogue in personalized narrative news, and calls attention to journalistic practices that can help empower civil society. This book offers new theories and methods for sociologists and media scholars and fresh insights for journalists, policy makers and concerned citizens.

Mass media and immigrants --- Médias et immigrants --- Médias et immigrants --- Migration. Refugees --- Sociology of minorities --- Journalism --- United States --- France --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Immigrants and mass media --- Immigrants --- United States of America

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"Undocumented immigration across the Mediterranean and the US-Mexican border is one of the most contested transatlantic public and political issues, raising fundamental questions about national identity, security and multiculturalism--all in the glare of news media themselves undergoing dramatic transformations. This interdisciplinary, international volume fills a major gap in political science and communication literature on the role of news media in public debates over immigration by providing unique insider's perspectives on journalistic practices and bringing them into dialogue with scholars and immigrant rights practitioners. After providing original comparative research by established and emerging international affairs and media scholars as well as grounded reflections by UN and IOM practitioners, the book presents candid, in-depth assessments by nine leading European and North American journalists covering immigration from the frontlines, ranging from the Guardian's Southern Europe editor to the immigration reporter for the Arizona Republic. Their comparative reflections on the professional, institutional and technological constraints shaping news stories offer unprecedented insight into the challenges and opportunities for 21st century journalism to affect public discourse and policymaking about issues critical to the future of the transatlantic space, making the book relevant across a wide range of scholarship on the media's impact on public affairs"--

Immigrants --- Mass media and immigrants --- United States --- Berichterstattung. --- Einwanderung. --- Einwanderungspolitik. --- Emigration and immigration --- Mass media and immigrants. --- Migration. --- Médias et immigrants --- POLITICAL SCIENCE --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Press coverage. --- Press coverage --- General. --- Public Policy --- Emigration & Immigration. --- Europa. --- European Union countries --- European Union countries. --- Pays de l'Union européenne --- USA. --- United States. --- Émigration et immigration --- Couverture de presse.