The security-based conception of immigration in the Spanish case

Authors

  • Lohitzune Zuloaga Lojo Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA)

Abstract

Immigration is a key subject to understand Spaniard opinion about public security. With the aim to study the link between the fear policies and immigration through the arguments of the political dimension of fear and the theory of setting agenda, this paper analyzes how media (El País and El Mundo) and political parties (parliament sessional diary) frame migration from 2000 to 2003 in Spain, a period when the coverage of migration was massive in national newspapers and the politic attention. The origin and the element that determined the narrative construction of migration related to public security explains why public opinion in Spain does not question the link between migration and crime.

Keywords

Security, Immigration, Agenda Setting

Author Biography

Lohitzune Zuloaga Lojo, Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA)

Profesora del Departamento de Sociología de la Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA). Doctora en sociología por esta Universidad, mi trayectoria investigadora se ha centrado en los ámbitos de la seguridad ciudadana, el terrorismo y la violencia de género, asuntos sobre los que ha publicado diversas contribuciones. He realizado estancias como investigadora visitante en centros de referencia como la Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA ) de El Salvador, y el Centro de Estudios en Seguridad Ciudadana (CESC) de la Universidad de Chile, además de colaborar asiduamente con destacadas instituciones españolas que investigan en esos enclaves.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenea.1548

Published

2016-07-05

How to Cite

Zuloaga Lojo, L. (2016). The security-based conception of immigration in the Spanish case. Athenea Digital. Revista De Pensamiento E investigación Social, 16(2), 215–244. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenea.1548

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