The Gendered Representation of Refugees Using Visual Frames in the Main Western European Media

• Published in: Gender issues Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 291 - 314
• Main Authors: Amores, Javier J., Arcila-Calderón, Carlos, González-de-Garay, Beatriz
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.12.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Disproportionate Representation; Females; Frame analysis; Gender Studies; Males; Mass media effects; Mass media images; Migration; Original Article; Photography; Refugees; Social Sciences; Sociology; Victims; Vulnerability; Western culture; Western society; Visual framing; Migrant crisis; Refugee crisis; News photographs; Western media; European media; Gendered representation; Media studies; Gender studies
• ISSN: 1098-092X; 1936-4717
• DOI: 10.1007/s12147-020-09248-1

In this paper we content analysed the way female refugees are depicted in 500 journalistic photographs published between 2013 and 2017 on ten of the news digital media with the greatest public impact from five of the Western European countries most affected by the wave of migration during the refuge...