Shaping Immigration News : A French-American Comparison (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: why study immigration news?; 2. The French and US journalistic fields: position, logic, and structure; 3. Narrating the immigrant experience in the US media: from jobs threat to humanitarian suffering; 4. Organizing the immigration debate in the French media: giving voice to civil society and strategizing against Le Pen; 5. Explaining continuity and change in French and US immigration news; 6. What makes the press more multiperspectival?; 7. What makes for a critical press?; 8. Does the medium matter? Television news about immigration; 9. Conclusion: the forces of fields and the forms of news.