British media discourse on Albanian immigrants
British media discourse on Albanian immigrants

Summary/Abstract: Immigration defines the world today. According to the IOM World Migration Report 2020, as of June 2019, the number of international migrants was estimated to be almost 272 million globally, 51 million more than in 2010 . With the new wave of migration around the world, migrants and issues around immigration have been the focus of media and research studies from different perspectives: economic, political, social, linguistic, etc. A common topic of research around the world has been the representation of migrants in the media.As one of the countries with the highest numbers of immigrants, Albania has also been at the center of foreign media attention in recent years. The number of immigrants to the United Kingdom increased, especially in 2022, and while the situation is widely reported in the British media, a comprehensive study of the situation has not been conducted yet. In this study, we explore the representation of Albanians in the British media based on qualitative analysis using critical discourse analysis (CDA) and quantitative analysis based on Corpus Linguistics (CL). Data was collected from the websites of the daily newspaper The Guardian and the British tabloid The Sun for a one-year period (2022). This period was chosen due to the heightened attention that Albanian immigrants received during this year in the British media. This paper discusses some of the issues with the ways Albanians are represented in the British media, and the results show that the media plays an important role in constructing the positive or negative image of immigrants.

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