İstanbul Arel Üniversitesi İletişim Çalışmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: Aslıhan Ardıç Çobaner

Konular:Sosyal

Anahtar Kelimeler:Child labour,Syrian refugees,Content and discourse analysis,Inequality

Özet: Child labor is a human rights issue as well as one of the most brutal forms of labor exploitation. The rise of economic inequalities, immigration and unemployment both raise the risk of child labor both in the world and Turkey. This study focuses on how child labour and the issue of Syrian children workers are presented in the Turkish media during the week (1-7 February 2016) which the Independent newspaper reports on the employment of Syrian children workers in Turkey. For this purpose, internet archives of Hürriyet, Sabah, Sözcü, Habertürk, Milliyet, Yeni Şafak, Vatan, Cumhuriyet, Birgün were scanned and the news that selected as sample in Hürriyet, Sabah, Sözcü, Habertürk, Milliyet, Yeni Şafak, Vatan, Cumhuriyet, and Birgün newspapers are examined and are analyzed with van Dijk’s critical discourse analysis methods. In the newspapers, this issue is given in two thematic frames which claim that "Syrian children workers are worked in Turkey" and "Syrian children workers are not worked in Turkey". The results indicate that, despite their different political and editorial preferences, the newspapers overlooked the social, economic and political background of newspapers; it is closed that the news is presented in the discourses of the sector representatives who can be defined as economic elites. As a result, the social, economic and political context of child labour is ignored in the news  

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