DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2019.v07i10.006

Pages: 702-709

Media and news agencies in general shapes public opinion. This study argued that there would be a shift to less favorable opinion about migration in the newspaper in 2015 than in 2018. This is largely due to the increasing rate of terrorist attacks that occurred within the periods under study. To prove the argument for this study, content analysis was used to analyse newspapers in five different European countries- Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, Sweden and France. It was evident in the study that, different attitudes by the countries were developed in dealing with the issues of migrations. Nonetheless, there was a general shift in the focus of coverage across Europe showing similarities across the cases studied.