The Perception of Muslim Immigrants through Society and the Media (PDF)

Case Study from the year 2018 in the subject Communications - Mass Media, grade: 9.5/10, , language: English, abstract: This paper aims to present how Media in Cyprus, France and the Netherlands portray the population of Muslim immigrants. This aspect deals with the terms of nationality, ethnicity and race as to the way they are related to the Muslim immigrants as a social group. Furthermore, this project deals with the way the societies of the three countries construct the identity of Muslim immigrants. Conceptions like nationalism and racism are to be investigated at this part of the project.

For the purposes of the project qualitative methodology will be followed. Specifically, as to the first part of the project as mentioned above, in order to discover the way media portray the Muslims, "Framing Analysis" will be adopted. There will be 8 articles picked for analysis from Cypriot, French and Dutch mainstream media, related to Muslim immigrants. In addition, in order to find out how the societies of the three countries construct the Muslims identity, "Content Analysis" will be used. In particular, 10 comments on mainstream media Facebook pages of each of the three countries mentioned, on posts related to immigration and Muslims will be used for analysis.

Finally, after the entire process of analysis, comparisons between the status of the three countries will be made in order to draw the final conclusion on how Muslim immigrants are percept through society and the media.