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Migration in Scotland: Public Opinion and the Role of the Media

Migration in Scotland: Public Opinion and the Role of the Media. Dr Scott Blinder The Migration Observatory University of Oxford. 7 Feb 2014 COSLA Conference: Migration and the Referendum Debate. Migration Observatory. Migration data, analysi s, and research

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Migration in Scotland: Public Opinion and the Role of the Media

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  1. Migration in Scotland: Public Opinion and the Role of the Media Dr Scott Blinder The Migration Observatory University of Oxford 7 Feb 2014 COSLA Conference: Migration and the Referendum Debate

  2. Migration Observatory • Migration data, analysis, and research • Authoritative, accurate, accessible data • Impartial analysis • Informing public discussion and policy debates • Bridge from academic community to media, civil society, policy-makers, local authorities

  3. Migration in Scotland project • Briefings • Data • Policy primers • Commentaries • “What we know – and don’t know – about migration” • Analysis of policy debates

  4. Public Opinion Research • Report to be published Monday 10 Feb • Scotland’s attitudes toward immigration • Overall • By category (reason for migration, legal status, type of occupation, and more) • In referendum context • Who should decide immigration policy? • What would/should an independent Scotland do? • How would/should borders be managed?

  5. Migration in the Media • Practical experience • Systematic research

  6. The Migration Observatory Corpus • 58,000 items (43 million words) retrieved from NexisUK database • Any article mentioning immigrants, migrants, refugees, asylum seekers • 20 British national newspapers divided by publication type (tabloid, midmarket, broadsheet) • 1 January 2010—31 December 2012

  7. Some key results: ‘illegal’, ‘failed’ • ILLEGAL as most common modifier for IMMIGRANTS in all three publication types • Many references to EUROPEAN and EASTERN EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS • FAILED was the most common way of describing ASYLUM SEEKERS across the three paper types

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