Katharina Tittel est doctorante à Sciences Po, Observatoire sociologique du changement (OSC – UMR 7049).
Elle bénéficie d’une allocation doctorale de l’Institut Convergences Migrations pour une durée de 3 ans depuis la rentrée 2020.
Directeur de thèse : Ettore RECCHI, Observatoire sociologique du changement (OSC – UMR 7049), CNRS /Sciences Po
Codirecteur de thèse : Jean-Philippe COINTET, médialab Sciences Po
Sujet de thèse : « Framing Refugees : A Mixed Quantitative Approach to Understand Racialised Hierarchies in Refugees Portrayals »
As notions of self-reliance, entrepreneurship, and productivity have gained prominence in the portrayal of ‘the refugee’, a small body of critical literature has explored the effects of such narratives, including the potential establishment of racial hierarchies. Using a large-scale dataset of press articles from different Western countries ; official reports by actors in the international refugee regime ; and behavioural traces of public interaction with these sources on social media, this research conducts a comparative multi-method analysis to examine how racialised hierarchies are (re-)produced in the framing of ‘the refugee’. The project seeks to analyse whether the reliance on, and the reproduction of, hierarchies of race in the framing of refugees may mediate understandings of problem definitions, moral evaluations, or treatment recommendations for the ‘problem’ of ‘the refugee’.
Katharian Tittel est rattachée aux départements INTEGER et POLICY.