And why do we need to care about it?
How Are Refugees Portrayed in the Media?
So Mang Han '18
A refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence
An unprecedented 65.6 million people around the world have been forced from home by conflict and persecution at the end of 2016.
The motivation of the research
Negative stereotype toward refugees without knowing who they are
Accepting refugees will negatively influence a nation
Injecting words and ideas describing refugees as who they are
Method
Web-scraping articles that have a word "refugee" from the Guardian
Clean up data with R
Find frequently used words
Semantic analysis by tidytext R package
Number of Articles by Year
Result 1:
100 Most Frequently Used Words during 2010-2017
Result 2:
Negative word frequency 2013-2017
Result 3:
Negative words:Positive words
Result 4:
20 most frequently used negative words during 2010-2017
Result 5:
20 most frequently used positive words during 2010-2017
Result 6:
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Commonwealth Parliament, and Parliament House. “Home.” Parliament of Australia, CorporateName=Commonwealth Parliament; Address=Parliament House, Canberra, ACT, 2600; Contact= 61 2 6277 7111, 27 Oct. 2017, www.aph.gov.au/
“Refugees.” United Nations, United Nations, www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/refugees/
Daley, Jason. “Kenya Moves to Shut Down the World's Largest Refugee Camp.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 9 May 2016, www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/kenya-moves-shut-down-worlds-largest-refugee-camp-180959030/.
Davis, Julie Hirschfeld, and Somini Sengupta. “Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 19 Sept. 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/us/politics/refugees-revenue-cost-report-trump.html.
Krogstad, Jens Manuel, and Jynnah Radford. “Key Facts about Refugees to the U.S.” Pew Research Center, 30 Jan. 2017, www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/30/key-facts-about-refugees-to-the-u-s/
Silge, Julia, and David Robinson. Introduction to Tidytext, 18 Feb. 2018, cran.r project.org/web/packages/tidytext/vignettes/tidytext.html.
Rutledge, Shannon. “Breaking the Mould: Refugees, Stereotypes, and Canadian Media.”Capstone Seminar Series, Capital Issues: Missing Narratives from Canada’s National Capital, vol. 1, no. 1, 2011, pp. 1–18
“What Is a Refugee? Definition and Meaning | USA for UNHCR.” Definition and Meaning | USA for UNHCR, www.unrefugees.org/refugee-facts/what-is-a-refugee/.
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