Culture, Politics and Ethics: Media Representation of Immigrants and Policy in Canada
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Developments in media technologies and the recent trend toward centralising both public and private information have transformed the political landscape in Canada. By centralising information technologies such as the news media, the Canadian government is able to construct and maintain hegemonic representations of a shared national identity and culture. Within this framework, this chapter analyses the politics involved in the representation of immigrants and immigration policy in news media, particularly the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (‘CBC’). This chapter argues that mainstream news media represents non-white immigrants in mainstream news media as ‘problems,’ and that this representation obscures the tensions that exist between ethnic groups, thereby contributing to the ongoing invisibility of minorities in the Canadian political landscape.