Migration and Crime

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Human Trafficking and Labor Exploitation of Migrants

   • Heidi Stöckl

   Pages 1-14

3. The Middle East Refugee Crisis. Syria and Iraq Case

   • Paiman Ahmad

   Pages 15-43

4. Risk Factors of the Irregular Migratory Waves on the Western Balkan Route: Implications in the European Union Countries

   • Merita H. Meçe

   Pages 45-67

5. The Securitization of East-European Migrants. The Occurrence of Liminal Identities in the European Union

   • Lucian Dumitrescu

   Pages 69-86

6. Making the Headlines: EU Immigration to the UK and the Wave of New Racism After Brexit

   • Bianca Fox

   Pages 87-107

7. Tales of Migration from the Global South. The Civilized and Uncivilized Migrant in the Narratives of La Tercera and El Mercurio

   • Maria L. Urbina

   Pages 109-138

8. From Neglect to Crime – The Role of Media in the 2015 European Migration Crisis. A Comparative Study in Three ECE Countries: Romania, Hungary and Slovenia

   • Irina Ana Kantor, Victor Cepoi

   Pages 139-166

9. Violence Against Refugees and the Turkish Mainstream Media

   • Deniz Yoldaș

   Pages 167-193

10. Victims or Aggresors? Framing Romanian Migrants and Crime in Two British Newspapers

    • Valentina Marinescu, Ramona Marinache

    Pages 195-211

11. Changing Images of Migrants and Crime in Romanian Mass Media

    • Ecaterina Balica, Valentina Marinescu

    Pages 213-233

12. Online Media Representation of Moldovan Emigrants and Crimes

    • Cătălina Croitoru, Elena Ciobanu, Vasile Dumitraș

    Pages 235-251

13. Prisoners’ Emigration Goals and Achievements Before and After Release

    • Angelica Hîrju, Lucian Rotariu

    Pages 253-271

14. Back Matter

    Pages 273-278

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This book proposes an interdisciplinary, multicultural and contemporary approach to examining the controversial links between migration and crime. It includes empirical research on migrants and crime to explore the risk and realities of crime and migration, as well as how mass media in different regions of the world has covered violent acts that have involved migrants (as victims or aggressors). The chapters are written by authors from various countries including the UK, Turkey, Slovenia, Iraq, Albania, Chile, the Republic of Moldavia, and Romania, and from different fields of research including: criminology, sociology, political sciences and communication. They bring to light new ideas, new methodologies and results that could be taken and developed further. This volume allows readers to explore the impact of migration on crime.

• immigrants
• immigration and media
• crime and media
• Brexit
• Securitization
• human trafficking
• labour exploitation
• reufugee crisis
• syria
• marginalisation
• crimmigration
• security
• ethnicity, class, gender and crime

• Laboratory ‘Violence and Crime. Prevention and Mediation’, Institute of Sociology – Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania

  Ecaterina Balica

• Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

  Valentina Marinescu

Ecaterina Balica is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Romanian Academy, and Coordinator of the 'Laboratory Violence and Crime. Prevention and Mediation’. She was an expert consultant for the Ministry of Justice, the National Institute of Criminology and NGOs. Her main research interests are: migration and crime, femicide, homicide-suicides, and restorative justice.

Valentina Marinescu is Professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, Romania. She teaches methods of research in communication sciences, introduction to communication and sociology of mass media. Her main research interests are communication and media studies.

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