ABSTRACT
With immigration continuing to make headline news both in the United States and in the European Union in the 2010s, raising critical issues for Western democracies and global movements, this book sought to bring scholars and practitioners into dialogue to shed new light on the role of the media in immigration debates, with the goal of illuminating why news stories about immigration are what they are in the transatlantic space. Using a multiple-stakeholder approach, this book did not seek to pit one set of “experts” against the other or provide either a how-to manual for immigration journalism or an advocacy political argument. On the contrary, it created a conversation so that journalists, human rights advocates, and scholars could explore original research and, crucially, experience firsthand some of the complexities and structural constraints on the ground, providing the conceptual and methodological benefits of synergetic, reflective work.
