The Syrian refugee crisis: how local governments and NGOs manage their image via social media

Disasters ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 509-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
María del Mar Gálvez‐Rodríguez ◽  
Arturo Haro‐de‐Rosario ◽  
María del Carmen Caba‐Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Syrian Refugee ◽  
Syrian Refugee Crisis

Risk at the margins: A natural hazards perspective on the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 101037 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Pollock ◽  
Joseph Wartman ◽  
Grace Abou-Jaoude ◽  
Alex Grant
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Syrian Refugee ◽  
Syrian Refugee Crisis

British newspapers’ stance towards the Syrian refugee crisis: An appraisal model study

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Tavassoli ◽  
Alireza Jalilifar ◽  
Peter RR White
Keyword(s):  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Syrian Refugee ◽  
Model Study ◽  
Political Orientations ◽  
The Right ◽  
Syrian Refugee Crisis ◽  
The Guardian

This study investigates the representations of the Syrian refugee crisis in commentary articles published in two British newspapers with different political orientations, The Guardian and The Telegraph. The study draws on the appraisal model as a linguistic tool to analyse the attitudinal language of the articles indicative of the stances adopted by the newspapers. Such stances have the potential to position the readers to positively view the refugees and accept them into their homeland labelled as the welcoming stance, or otherwise reject them labelled as unwelcoming. The selected 20 articles belong to September 2015 and March 2016, the beginning and end of a 6-month period during which important policy changes were made by the leading countries in the wake of 2015 terrorist attacks. The findings indicate that the left-leaning The Guardian adopts a dominantly welcoming stance towards the Syrian refugees and consistently maintains this welcoming stance after 6 months of chaos across Europe. The right-leaning The Telegraph, however, shows a more unwelcoming stance and becomes even more unwelcoming after 6 months.

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