Watching Arabic Television in Europe: From Diaspora to Hybrid Citizens

by Christina Slade and Ingrid Volkmer

Anti-immigrant sentiment is on the rise in Europe, focused on Islam and on Arabs, and manifested in increasingly rigorous immigration regimes. What are Arabic Europeans watching on television and how does it affect their identities as Europeans? New quantitative and qualitative evidence from seven capitals shows that, far from being isolated in ethnic media ghettoes, they are critical news consumers in Arabic and European languages. Arabic speakers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137352426
• ISBN13: 9781137352422
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"