HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS SEEN AS INTERCULTURALITY IN NUCE: LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF TWO ITALIAN NEWSPAPERS
HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS SEEN AS INTERCULTURALITY IN NUCE: LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF TWO ITALIAN NEWSPAPERS

Summary/Abstract: Society is not static, but always in motion, it is a composition made of diverse elements also when the migrations are not intervening. But when are migrations “forced” by poverty, famine and wars to oblige people to run away from their land, he who is involved in those events finds himself in one of those situations which Giddens defines “cultural shock”, which affects the refugees as well as the populations of the country chosen for the landing. The goal that we are aiming at is that of analyzing how the newspapers report the news about immigration in Italy. Newspapers are mostly the voice of the power and they suggest the readers how to consider themselves and the others. Hostility towards minority groups have been noticed by many sociological and psychological studies and the migration movements provided always new targets to inter-group prejudice and led to opportunities of new conflictions. In 2003 the first newspaper exhibits the foreigners as deviants while the second one faces the problem from a political perspective and interprets the landings as something tragic. In 2013 the first newspaper stresses the political aspect and the tragic situation of the immigrants, while the second one continues to keep the attention on the landings and stresses the dramatic events. It can be said that the reporters produce an agenda setting that should aim to accompany the feeling of reception which should be widespread to accept the difficult situation.

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