Japanese Newspaper Portrayals of Refugees-A Frame Analysis from 1985 to 2017
Japanese Newspaper Portrayals of Refugees-A Frame Analysis from 1985 to 2017
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日本报纸对难民的描述——1985年至2017年的框架分析
DOI：
10.1093/jrs/feac007
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Nicholas A. R. Fraser
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作者：
John W. Cheng;Nicholas A. R. Fraser
对西方国家的几项研究将媒体对难民的负面成见与支持限制性政策联系起来。然而，人们对日本知之甚少，这个亚洲国家因其严格的难民政策而受到广泛批评。我们的研究通过探索这一差距，首先，日本新闻媒体对不同难民人口的报道趋势，其次，左倾新闻媒体对难民的报道是否与右倾新闻媒体不同。通过对1985年至2017年间发表的3372篇日本报纸文章进行定量演绎框架分析，我们发现，尽管某些框架出现的频率具有一定的一致性，但媒体报道反映了特定难民群体的背景差异。研究结果还表明，日本报纸普遍使用同情框架的频率高于负面框架，左倾报纸比右倾报纸更经常和更同情地报道难民。我们的研究结果表明，在日本等难民人口较少且不太公开的东道国，负面媒体报道与严格的政策之间可能没有直接联系。
Several studies of western countries link negative media stereotyping of refugees to support for restrictive policies. However, less is known about Japan, an Asian country that has been widely criticized for its strict refugee policy. Our study addresses this gap by exploring, first, trends in Japanese news media coverage of different refugee populations and second, whether left-leaning news outlets cover refugees differently than right-leaning ones. Using quantitative deductive frame analysis of 3372 Japanese newspaper articles published between 1985 and 2017, we find that despite some consistency in the frequency with which certain frames appear, media coverage reflects contextual differences of specific refugee populations. The results also show that Japanese newspapers generally use sympathetic frames at higher frequencies than negative ones and left-leaning newspapers cover refugees more often and more sympathetically than right-leaning newspapers. Our findings suggest that there may be no direct linkage between negative media coverage and strict policies in host countries with small and less publicly visible refugee populations, such as Japan.