ABSTRACT
In recent years, both the topic of migration within Europe as well as the topic of migration into Europe have become increasingly salient. However, we still know relatively little about how these two media discourses about migration differ from each other. Analysing 850,000 migration-related news articles in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK in the 14-year period from January 2003 to December 2017, this chapter provides a comprehensive mapping of media discourses about migration within and migration into Europe. The results show that, in fact, migration within Europe only makes up a small part of migration coverage more generally. While media salience of migration remained stable for a large part of the period of analysis, it increased sharply after 2015 for countries that were major countries of destination or transit. In most countries, migration framing focused on security concerns. Coverage about migration within Europe was tied to key events such as EU accession periods and was often framed in terms of opportunities and consequences for the labour market. The chapter also explores possible political biases in the framing of migration coverage before discussing the implications of the findings.
