https://doi.org/10.31648/mkks.2900
The aim of the authors of this article is to analyze the image of foreigners as created by influential weeklies in the context of the growing migration crisis in Europe in 2015. The method of content analysis was used to test five weeklies with diverse ideological profiles (“Gość Niedzielny,” “Newsweek Polska,” “Polityka,” “W Sieci” and “Wprost”), published between 1st June and 31st December 2015 – a period of rising social unrest in Europe, caused by a massive influx of foreigners from the Middle East and Africa, described in the media discourse as refugees. The authors have deliberately used the term foreigners not to narrow the field of research only to victims of political or religious persecutions. A quantitative and, partially, qualitative analysis indicates that conservative rightist weeklies promote a rather negative and quite shallow image of foreigners, portraying them more as a crowd (“W Sieci”), instead of highlighting individual cases of dramatic fates of people and families (“Gość Niedzielny”). The leftist press focuses on foreigners who belong to the elite (writers, artists, painters). A Catholic weekly, “Gość Niedzielny,” often presents problems of families trying to adapt to a new reality
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