Victims or intruders? Refugee portrayals in the news in Turkey, Bulgaria and the UK

News shapes audiences’ views of people and events beyond their immediate physical environment. Since the mass migration refugees from Syria represents one worst humanitarian crises in modern history, its news coverage necessarily shaped way global audiences understood crisis. This qualitative study employs critical discourse analysis (CDA), specifically Van Leeuwen’s Discourse Practice: New Tools for Critical Analysis (2008) as a social practice approach, to reveal compare discursive strategies used print media Syrian three European countries: Turkey, Bulgaria UK. The findings show significant differences describe different approaches terms contextualization, spaces actions depicted each country. reveals ongoing dialogue between journalistic political decision making countries impacted varying extents by