ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to bring attention to the media's treatment of the "global refugee crisis", situated within established research on discursive representations of migrants, refugees, and resettlement and reconceptualizations of citizenship in terms of access and inclusion. It outlines some key scholarship in the analysis of news media's coverage of immigrants, migrants, and refugees, also summarized in Loring. The chapter explores media representations of refugees and possible implications for literacy practices regarding refugee education. In focusing on the initial displacement and migration of refugees during the "global refugee crisis", the media tends to frame the issue largely in terms of the population impact on European countries. Frequent exposure to discourse that focuses on refugees' and migrants' large numbers, difficulties, and economic and demographic effects on the host country may result in a tendency to think about refugees as a homogenous mass in a negative light.
