ABSTRACT
This chapter1 concentrates on the press discourse concerning immigration in Greece, Italy and Spain in the period between 1990 and 1995. The press is seen here as an important public arena in which social issues are defined. By analysing press discourse, I shall seek to map the discursive universe within which the immigration debate takes place. The main topics, symbols, interpretative frames and values related to immigration are identified, and attention is paid to the definitions of the ingroup-the nation and the outgroupimmigrants.
