Writing Xenophobia: Immigration and the Print Media in Post-apartheid South Africa
Writing Xenophobia: Immigration and the Print Media in Post-apartheid South Africa
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书写仇外心理：种族隔离后南非的移民和印刷媒体
DOI：
10.2979/aft.2001.48.3.114
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发表时间：
2001
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通讯作者：
Aquilina Mawadza
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作者：
F. Banda;Aquilina Mawadza
本文讨论了印刷媒体对南非跨境移民的报道，以及它如何影响公众舆论和政策制定。该文件认为，南非新闻界对国际移徙的报道基本上是反移民和缺乏分析的。并非所有的报道都是负面的，报纸的报道似乎随着时间的推移而有所改善，但为这项研究而接受调查的报纸文章、社论和给编辑的信件的绝大多数都对移民和移民持负面态度，而且在性质上极其缺乏分析，不加批判地复制了有关该地区跨界移民的有问题的统计数据和假设。虽然不可能在这种反移民媒体报道与南非的反移民政策制定和仇外心理之间建立直接的因果关系，但该文件确实认为，这两者至少是相辅相成的，印刷媒体有责任在报道这一问题时更加平衡和实事求是。
This paper discusses the print media's coverage of cross-border migration in South Africa and how it may affect both public opinion and policymaking on the topic. The paper argues that coverage of international migration by the South African press has been largely anti-immigrant and unanalytical. Not all reportage is negative, and newspaper coverage would appear to be improving over time, but the overwhelming majority of the comprehensive collection of newspaper articles, editorials and letters to the editor surveyed for this research are negative about immigrants and immigration and are extremely unanalytical in nature, uncritically reproducing problematic statistics and assumptions about crossborder migration in the region. Although it is impossible to draw direct causal links between this kind of anti-immigrant media coverage and anti-immigrant policymaking and xenophobia in South Africa, the paper does argue that the two are at least mutually reinforcing and that the print media has a responsibility to be more balanced and factual in its reporting on the issue.