Media Coverage of Labor Migrants in Russia during the COVID-19 Pandemic

IF 2 2区社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Problems of Post-Communism Pub Date : 2021-07-07 DOI:10.1080/10758216.2021.1940207

Vanessa Ruget, Burul Usmanalieva

引用次数: 2

Abstract

ABSTRACT This study explores media coverage of migration in Russia during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyzed and coded articles published in six mainstream Russian newspapers and on one popular news site between March 1 and June 30 of 2020. Our results confirm key findings of the literature on media and migrants in Russia over the last decade, including the frequent portrayal of migrants as a security threat, a focus on legality and illegality, and the absence of a migrant voice. However, contrary to our expectations, not all sources significantly covered the topic of COVID-19 infections among migrants. Overall, our paper contributes to a growing literature examining the securitization of migrants in non-Western contexts and initiates a discussion of how a pandemic might exacerbate this phenomenon.

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COVID-19大流行期间俄罗斯劳工移民的媒体报道

本研究探讨了媒体在2019冠状病毒病大流行的头几个月对俄罗斯移民的报道。我们分析并编码了2020年3月1日至6月30日期间在俄罗斯六家主流报纸和一家热门新闻网站上发表的文章。我们的研究结果证实了过去十年中关于俄罗斯媒体和移民的文献的主要发现，包括经常将移民描述为安全威胁，关注合法性和非法性，以及缺乏移民的声音。然而，与我们的预期相反，并非所有消息来源都充分涵盖了移民中COVID-19感染的主题。总的来说，我们的论文有助于越来越多的研究非西方背景下移民证券化的文献，并引发了关于流行病如何加剧这一现象的讨论。

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Problems of Post-Communism POLITICAL SCIENCE-

CiteScore

4.00

自引率

12.50%

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