Consenting to Orientalism when Covering Migration: How the British Media Dehumanises Migrants in the Context of the Syrian Civil War
The British vote to leave Europe rests largely upon fear of migrants.British media can be shown to have contributed to this by dehumanising migrants through news coverage.Discourse analysis of stories during the ‘European migrant crisis’ (2015) will show how dehumanisation occurs via Orientalist discourses (Said, 1979), presenting migrants as a