Ideological framing of Somali refugees’ repatriation from Kenya

Abstract

This study sought to examine the implications of ideological framing of Somali refugees’ repatriation from Kenya in news reports in the Daily Nation and The Standard; as well as in the Guardian and Washington Post. This study was conducted using the comparative research design aimed at providing ideological framing of Somali refugees’ repatriation from Kenya. The researcher used a comparative research design to identify and analyse differences and similarities between the arguments by recording outcomes without manipulation. This study's target sources of data are newspaper reports addressing the arguments about the Somali refugees' repatriation from Kenya as reported in the local and international print media. The researcher used news reports about the arguments of Somali repatriation from Daadab in Kenya as reported in the local and international print media by adopting the purposive sampling technique. In this study, data was collected from newspaper reports from both the local and international newspapers that have covered the arguments about the repatriation of Somali refugees from the Daadab refugee camp in Kenya. This study used a qualitative data analysis technique. The study concluded that the media should do more research to come up with an objective ideology from the refugees. Framing of stories based on the donors and government may not always show what is happening at the camp. It recommends that the ideologies that were portrayed strongly in this study are insecurity, sympathy for refugees, donor benefits, instability in Somalia and economic burden.