Discursive construction of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in British and American news sources

This paper focuses on the discursive construction of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in British and American liberal and conservative press in September 2015. The combination of corpus-based approach and CDA was used to proceed the data. The results indicate that in September 2015 migrants, refugees and asylum seekers were presented in a positive light. No crucial differences in representations in different sources were found, although conservative news sources tend to create a slightly more negative representation of people coming to Europe than liberal ones. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.