ABSTRACT

Using textual analysis, this study compares and contrasts how newspapers from Zimbabwe, Nigeria and South Africa—countries at the centre of the September 2019 xenophobic attacks in South Africa—under different ownership patterns defined the problem of xenophobia, its causes and solutions. Understanding how xenophobia was framed is important, for it has implications on policy formulations in dealing with immigration. The study finds that although there were common frames across the newspapers, there were also significant differences between newspapers from sending and receiving countries. Privately controlled newspapers also framed the crisis differently as compared to government or publicly controlled newspapers.

摘要

本研究通过文本分析比较和对比了津巴布韦、尼日利亚和南非（2019 年 9 月南非仇外袭击的中心国家）在不同所有权模式下的报纸如何定义仇外心理问题、其原因和解决方案。了解仇外心理是如何形成的很重要，因为它会对处理移民问题的政策制定产生影响。研究发现，尽管报纸之间存在共同的框架，但来自发送国和接收国的报纸之间也存在显着差异。与政府或公共控制的报纸相比，私人控制的报纸对危机的描述也不同。