International Migration Framing in the Global Times (2012–2022): Constructing Identity Narrative About the Self and the Other

Q2 Social Sciences Journal of Current Chinese Affairs Pub Date : 2024-04-15 DOI:10.1177/18681026241242489
Elena D. Soboleva
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This article addresses a research gap in the studies of international migration discourse in China's mass media. The focus on the Global Times, a Chinese Communist Party-owned commercialised newspaper famous for its nationalist discourse, elucidates how news about this global issue is used to construct China's identity narrative. The empirical part includes the analysis of the data spanning a decade (2012–2022) collected from the Global Times. It is studied with the help of computational text analysis tools, including topic modelling that is used to identify frames in the coverage of international migration. The analysis reveals that the Global Times devotes disproportionate attention to migration-related political, security, and socio-economic problems in the West, reproducing elements of the mainstream discourse in the Western media. Such overrepresentation, coupled with the selective coverage of China's own experience with international migration is used to emphasise the weaknesses of the Other in contrast to the stable Self.
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全球时代的国际移民框架(2012-2022 年):构建关于自我和他人的身份叙事
本文探讨了中国大众传媒在国际移民话语研究方面的空白。本文以《环球时报》(一份中国共产党拥有的商业化报纸,以其民族主义言论而闻名)为研究对象,阐释了有关这一全球性问题的新闻是如何被用于构建中国的身份叙事的。实证部分包括分析从《环球时报》收集到的跨越十年(2012-2022 年)的数据。研究借助了计算文本分析工具,包括用于识别国际移民报道框架的主题建模。分析表明,《环球时报》对西方国家与移民相关的政治、安全和社会经济问题给予了过多关注,再现了西方媒体主流话语的要素。这种过度报道,加上对中国自身国际移民经验的选择性报道,被用来强调他者的弱点,与稳定的自我形成对比。
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Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Current Chinese Affairs is an internationally refereed academic journal published by the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, Hamburg. The journal focuses on current developments in Greater China. It is simultaneously published (three times per year) online as an Open Access journal and as a printed version with a circulation of 1,000 copies, making it one of the world’s most widely read periodicals on Asian affairs. The Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, unlike some other Open Access publications, does not charge its authors any fee. The Journal of Current Chinese Affairs reaches a broad international readership in academia, administration and business circles. It is devoted to the transfer of scholarly insights to a wide audience. The journal is committed to publishing high-quality, original research on current issues in China in a format and style that is accessible across disciplines and to professionals with an interest in the region. The editors welcome contributions on current affairs within Greater China, including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Submissions can focus on emerging topics and current developments as well as on future-oriented debates in the fields of China''s global and regional roles; political, economic and social developments including foreign affairs, business, finance, cultural industries, religion, education, science and technology; and so on.
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