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Master's Thesis from the year 2003 in the subject Social Pedagogy /
Social Work, grade: 1,3, Alice Salomon University of Applied
Sciences Berlin AS, 62 entries in the bibliography, language:
English, abstract: Abstract This thesis involves a
multi-disciplinary study of the relationship between media, power
and immigration in the UK. The initial goal is to establish the
major themes and issues that should potentially play strong roles
in the mass media reportage of asylum and immigration. This is
achieved through an analysis of the UK's refugee intake compared to
other countries in the world, the demographic effect of immigration
in the UK and the situations in the major refugee sending
countries. A historical research into both the domestic immigration
policies of UK politicians and the contemporary strategies of
globalisation is used to ascertain the very different themes and
issues of asylum and immigration that reflect the agenda of the UK
political elite. Using Herman and Chomsky's US "Propaganda Model"
as a theoretical template, the UK's mass media is structurally
analysed to ascertain its potential subservience to domestic elite
interests. Having discovered that fundamental institutional
similarities exist between the US and the UK media, a content
analysis is performed on three British newspapers to test the
predictions of Herman and Chomsky's media model. The results of
this case study reveal strongly that asylum/immigration themes
useful to the UK political elites are highly visible despite their
lack of statistical relevance, whereas fundamental issues damaging
to this group are minimised or ignored. This work therefore
concludes that the UK mainstream media is flawed as a conduit of
information concerning asylum and immigration issues due to its
lack of structural independence from the agenda of the political
elite. The thesis closes with an overview of organisations
attempting to challenge these flaws.
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