Media Securitization of the Migration Process on the so-called Balkan Route: Case Study – Serbia and North Macedonia

Date Issued
2023
Author(s)
GJurovski, Marjan
Arnaudov, Mitko
DOI
10.18690/um.fvv.6.2023
Abstract
The issue of migration received media attention in Serbia and
North Macedonia when thousands of economic migrants and
refugees tried to reach Western European countries through the
Balkan route. The media of these countries did not have a clear
picture of migration. Regional media have had experience only
with the refugee flows since the Yugoslavian civil wars. But, a new
wave of migrants and the huge media interest in the Balkan route
has opened several questions: How to deal with the vast number
of people trying to cross the borders illegally; On which criteria to
classify the economic migrants or war refugees; How to protect
human rights and also protect the local population; How to
manage all that in globalized media networks. The goal of the
paper is to show, through the Balkan route example, how the
migrant issues in regional relations have taken a significant place
in national and regional security strategies, and also, how this issue
is securitized by the media in the Western Balkans. Theoretically,
it will serve in the process of explanation of the media's role in the
domain of identification and securitization of contemporary
security challenges, in this case using the migration example.
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migration, Serbia, ...

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