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Svetlana Serebryakova | Issues of Migration
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and parents from Grosny, and his first difficult years of adjustment to life in
Stavropol’ (“Otkrytaya dlia vsekh i kazhdogo” 2007, No. 21, p. 10).
On the other hand, media often diagnoses migrant problems, and the
oftentimes problematic character of migration processes in the Stavropol’ area,
especially in the Eastern rural districts with more and more Dagestan
settlements. In these cases, journalists seek for scientific comment and
sociological evaluation of the migration development, asking regionally well-
known political scientists, sociologists, and experts in the field of conflict
studies. Concluding it can be stated that the regional-, as well as city- and
county-press have a different attitude towards issues of migration – differences
that result from different journalistic policies and a varied readership. Where
county- and city-newspapers concentrate on single events or the story of one
single person, they often report in news, advertisements, accounts of different
social programmes, and letters to the editor, on migration issues from a
positive point of view. Journalists avoid a discriminatory vocabulary and
negative stereotypes.
In the Eastern counties of the Stavropol’ area, sharing borders with the
North Caucasian Republics, oftentimes unbalanced and negative material is
being published, sometimes leading to a deepening of conflicts.
County newspapers inform a large readership about migration-related
occurrences, about tendencies of integration policies – oftentimes in the con-
text of federaly policy. In doing so, they prefer analytical news and interviews
to report on the issue.
Letters to the editor are one more source of information on the subject.
Regularly being published, refugees and migrants have themselves a share in
the statements on problems of integration into the receiving society.
A survey that has been conducted among journalists by researchers from
the faculty of history and theory of journalism at Stavropol’ State University,
shows that journalists are aware of the importance of the issue, as well as of
their own responsibility when journalistically dealing with the respective
subject matter. Sometimes this awareness leads to an omission of migration
issues in reporting, in order to, as one journalist put it, “bring no harm”.
All in all, the print media of the Stavropol’ area acknowledges the potential
for conflict going along with migration processes, especially in the Southern
parts of the Russian Federation. But still, media content with positive
tendencies prevails, thus encouraging positive associations and attitudes among
citizens. In the process, tolerance and multicultural integration are keywords,
positively shaping the main concept of interethnic relations and of non-
controversial, intercultural communication in the North Caucasus.
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