Same, same but different? A Discourse Network Analysis of the EU's framings of refugee arrivals in 2015 and 2022.

ABSTRACT: The European Union (EU) experienced two major instances of refugee influx: in 2015, refugees, mainly from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq fled civil war, persecution, and dire conditions in neighbouring countries and in 2022, Ukrainians fled from Russia's full-scale invasion. Fusing theoretical insights on framing and crisification of migration, we ask: How do EU actors frame situations of refugee mass influx? Employing a Discourse Network Analysis, we examine EU representatives' framing of both instances with respect to three analytical foci: (1) who or what they considered to be in crisis, (2) their framing of refugees; and (3) who they saw to be responsible for solving the crisis. We show how, in 2015, EU representatives framed mass displacement predominantly as a crisis at and of Europe's

SUBMITTER: Sosa Popovic L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11750152 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature