Debating Migration as a Public Problem

Camelia Beciu is Professor at the University of Bucharest and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Romanian Academy. She has published extensively on the media construction of public problems (in particular, migration), political communication, and the public sphere.Mălina Ciocea is Reader at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), Bucharest, and is currently leading the Laboratory: Communication, Discourse, Public Problems (CoDiPo) of the Centre for Research in Communication. Her main research interests are the dynamics of the Romanian diaspora and the memory of communism in young generations. Irina Diana Mădroane is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the West University of Timișoara. She specializes in critical discourse analysis and the study of media discourse, and has done extensive research on the construction of migrant identities in public discourses.Alexandru I. Cârlan is Lecturer at the SNSPA, Bucharest, and a member of the CoDiPo Laboratory. His research contributes to the fields of discourse analysis, rhetoric, and argumentation theory, focusing on migration or public memory as main topics.

• Acknowledgments – Camelia Beciu/Mălina Ciocea/Irina Diana Mădroane/Alexandru I. Cârlan: Introduction: Intra-EU Labor Migration and Transnationalism in Media Discourses: A Public Problem Approach – Part 1. Intra-EU Labor Migration in the Media of the Sending Country: Between Instrumentalization and Empowerment – Camelia Beciu/Mirela Lazăr: Migration and Country Status: The Rearticulation of Identities Through Media Counter-Discourses – Mălina Ciocea/Alexandru I. Cârlan: Debating Migration: Diasporic Stances in Media Discourse – Alina Dolea: The Impact of Migration on the Construction of Romania’s Country Image: Two Intersecting Public Problems – Part 2. Intra-EU Labor Migration and Deliberative Practices in the Public Sphere – Alexandru I. Cârlan/Mălina Ciocea: Media Deliberation on Intra-EU Migration: A Qualitative Approach to Framing Based on Rhetorical Analysis – Irina Diana Mădroane: Romanian Immigration in the British Newspapers: Engaging Audiences During the Brexit Referendum Campaign – Part 3. Identity Negotiation in the Transnational Field: Agency and Discourse – Irina Diana Mădroane: Migrant Identities and Practices in Media Advocacy Campaigns: The Construction of Claims and Audiences – Nicolae Perpelea: Media Hospitality to Diasporactivism and Diasporapathy in the News Community – Camelia Beciu: "Here" and "There": Identity-Building Strategies in Debates with Non-Migrants – Camelia Beciu/Mălina Ciocea/Irina Diana Mădroane/Alexandru I. Cârlan: Final Remarks: Media, Migration, and Transnational Practices – About the Contributors – Index.

"Debating Migration as a Public Problem: National Publics and Transnational Fields is a valuable addition to existing literature in English that addresses intra-EU migration with a focus on discourse, especially media discourse. It brings together papers written by established Romanian scholars, which are based upon several years of intense and high-quality research. The studies complement the prevailing bias, in current research, toward the perspective of the ‘host’ countries by taking a transnational approach to the construction of Romanian migration in the public sphere of the 'sending' country."—Norman Fairclough, Emeritus Professor, Lancaster University, UK