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Svetlana Serebryakova | Issues of Migration
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vedomosti” is again being published (since 1992), and so is “Pyatigorskaya
pravda” (since 1995). The newspaper “Rodina” (KPRF, Communist Party of
the Russian Federation) represents the party press. On the sector of private
media there are mainly weekly newspapers – with the exception of two daily
newspapers. Highest circulations in the Stavropol’ area can be found among
the weekly advertisement-papers on the news-sector: “Ekstra-biznes”,
“Telekur’er”, “Kavkazkaja nedel’ya”, the daily district newspaper “Stavro-
pol’skaya pravda”, the city newspapers “Vechernii Stavropol’”, “Pyatigorskaya
pravda”, the county newspapers “Rassvet” (Turkmensky County), “Blagodar-
nenskie vesti” (Blagodarnensky County), “Primanychskie stepi” (Apanasen-
kovsky County).
Matters of general social importance are subject of journalistic interest
mainly in the general newspapers of the majority – special interest media looks
at the respective subject matter from its special interest point of view.
Accordingly, our sample to study the characteristics of journalistic description
of migration processes and issues consists of regional-, city- and county-
newspapers – different levels of media reporting, where different attitudes
towards the subject matter can be observed.
Traditional and conservative is the coverage of issues of migration in
county newspapers: Being published with 4-8 pages (3 of which contain
journalistic material, the others advertisements, TV program etc.) once or
twice a week, those publications aim at close contact to their readers, supplying
them with information on local issues of their county. In doing so they focus
on the activities of communal authorities, reporting on their sanctions and
measures taken in order to solve migration-related problems.
A news report in the county-newspaper “Levokum’e” (April 7th, 2007)
can be seen as an example: “On Migration and Security Measures” it says in
the headline of the article, reporting on a meeting of the county council of
economic and social security that discussed processes of migration in the
Levokumsky County. In his article the journalist discusses several key issues
related to migration: its uncontrolled development, its evocation of socio-
economic and ecological chance in the Levokumsky County:
The newcomers do not make an effort to get to know existing
traditions, customs and conventions of the residing population, their
behavior oftentimes attests to their depreciative relationship to the
residing population. Should not the migrants be thankful to the
residing population, that a higher educational level in new living
conditions is being granted to them, and that they get the opportunity
to be proficient in the use of the national language.
Media – Migration – Integration
European and North American Perspectives
- Title
- Media – Migration – Integration
- Subtitle
- European and North American Perspectives
- Authors
- Rainer Geissler
- Horst Pöttker
- Publisher
- transcript Verlag
- Date
- 2009
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-8376-1032-1
- Size
- 15.0 x 22.4 cm
- Pages
- 250
- Keywords
- Integration, Media, Migration, Europe, North America, Sociology of Media, Sociology
- Category
- Medien