This paper focuses on migrants and migration in the context of the Czech Republic, an ethnically and nationally homogeneous country without significant migration experience. Despite this fact, the issue of migration became very prominent in 2015 and has been an integral part of Czech political and public discourse since then. Although the topic has attracted scholarly interest, but the reflection on migrant images held by citizens has been omitted. To fill this gap, first, we conducted a quantitative computer-assisted content analysis of the main Czech media (2015–2018) to investigate how important the issue of migration was and in what context migrants and migration were discussed in the media. We then conducted a series of focus groups with Czech citizens to answer not only how they perceived migrants and migration in general, but also how they perceived the (quality of) media coverage of this issue. The findings offer insight into patterns of media consumption: Our respondents were well aware that media representation of the topic is exaggerated and does not include all possible points of view. The prevailing perception was that the mostly negative media representation was fixated on the image of a migrant coming from the Middle East, most likely to be a terrorist who is not going to adapt to a “normal” life in the Czech Republic. Indeed, the very term migrant is mainly associated with someone who, according to the mental projections of the respondents, is “different” at first sight, fails to fit in and integrate into the majority society, does not look for work thus becoming dependent on the social system of the host country. In other words, for Czechs, people who come to settle and work are excluded from the socially constructed category of migrants.

本文重点关注捷克共和国背景下的移民和移民，捷克共和国是一个种族和民族同质的国家，没有重要的移民经验。尽管如此，移民问题在 2015 年变得非常突出，自那时以来一直是捷克政治和公共话语中不可或缺的一部分。虽然这个话题引起了学术界的兴趣，但对公民持有的移民形象的反思却被忽略了。为了填补这一空白，我们首先对捷克主要媒体（2015-2018 年）进行了定量计算机辅助内容分析，以调查移民问题的重要性以及媒体在何种背景下讨论移民和移民问题。然后，我们与捷克公民进行了一系列焦点小组讨论，不仅回答了他们对移民和一般移民的看法，还有他们如何看待这个问题的媒体报道（质量）。调查结果提供了对媒体消费模式的洞察：我们的受访者很清楚，媒体对该主题的表述被夸大了，并且没有包括所有可能的观点。普遍的看法是，大多数负面的媒体报道都集中在来自中东的移民的形象上，很可能是一名不会适应捷克共和国“正常”生活的恐怖分子。事实上，移民这个词主要是指根据受访者的心理预测，乍一看“与众不同”、无法融入和融入主流社会、不找工作从而变得依赖的人。东道国的社会制度。换句话说，对于捷克人来说，