This study seeks to investigate the media representations of climate refugees in two global media outlets: The BBC and Al Jazeera. An exhaustive sample of the online coverage from 2000 until 2017 has been gathered and examined through a content analysis guided by framing theory and multimodal critical discourse analysis. After reviewing the 29 news stories, this article finds that climate refugees are framed in four ways: as victims, security threats, activists, and abstractions. In both media outlets, climate refugees are aggregated, collectivized, and made generic—and their situation is deagentialized. The study concludes that the BBC mainly talks about climate refugees instead of talking to them and that this has an impact on the climate refugees’ depicted agency. Al Jazeera quotes more climate refugees in their journalistic coverage, and this allows the reader to understand and empathize. However, both media outlets tend to represent climate refugees as “third world others”: as sinking strangers.

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下沉陌生人：BBC 和半岛电视台对气候难民的媒体报道

本研究旨在调查两家全球媒体对气候难民的媒体报道：BBC 和半岛电视台。通过以框架理论和多模态批判性话语分析为指导的内容分析，收集并检查了 2000 年至 2017 年在线报道的详尽样本。在回顾了 29 条新闻报道后，本文发现气候难民被分为四种方式：受害者、安全威胁、活动家和抽象派。在这两个媒体中，气候难民被聚合、集体化并被通用化——他们的处境被去性别化。该研究得出的结论是，BBC 主要谈论气候难民而不是与他们交谈，这对气候难民所描绘的机构产生了影响。半岛电视台在其新闻报道中引用了更多的气候难民，这让读者能够理解和感同身受。然而，两家媒体都倾向于将气候难民描述为“第三世界其他人”：下沉的陌生人。