Greece - 2012
Media: Frequency and relevance of hate speech incidents in public life (and media) and media representations against migrants and minorities?
- Code:
- RED121
- Key Area:
- Public Life, Culture, Sport & Media
- Strand(s):
- Racism
| Short Answer |
Quite frequent. |
| Qualitative Info |
Several studies have shown that representations against migrant and minorities are quite often in press and electronic media. See among others: Triantafyllidou, A. (2001), "Migrants, minorities and Greek media", in Kontochristou M. (ed.), Identity and Media in Contemporary Greece, Athens: Papazissis. Pavlou, M (2001), "The 'smugglers' of fear: Racist discourse and Migrants in the press of a metropolitan candidate", in Marvakis, A., parsanoglou, D., Pavlou, M (eds.), Migrants in Greece, Athens: Ellinika Grammata. Vlassidis, V. (2005), "Migrants and Media in the end of 20th century Greece", in Frangonicolopoulos, Ch. (ed.), Media, Society and Politics: Role and Function in Contemporary Greece, Athens: I. Sideris. More recent data is provided by the 2010 RAXEN Thematic Study on Racist and related hate crimes in Greece, where the assessment of the situation is described as follows: "Data on hate speech concern far right political and media discourse on immigrants and Jewish believers. ECRI report highlights the leader of LAOS (a far right-wing party which acquired 3% of the votes in the 2007 parliamentary elections), who “often makes public antisemitic and racist statements, including blaming immigrants for a surge of drug-related crimes and violence”. With regard to media discourse, ECRI report includes concerns of Jewish community representatives, who indicate that “the exacerbation of the conflict in the Middle East [has also given] rise to antisemitism in some Greek media”. In addition, CERD mentions other reports “on the propagation by certain organizations and media outlets of racist stereotypes and hate comments against persons belonging to different ethnic and racial groups”. (...) ECRI and CERD in their reports urge the Greek authorities to ensure the enforcement of Law 927/1979 in the matters of media and political discourse. The ECRI report recommends the enforcement of anti-racist law against “journalists and media who incite racial hatred” and “public figures who engage in racist discourse”."
ECRI Report on Greece, fourth monitoring cycle, September 2009. (http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/Country-by-country/Greece/GRC-CbC-IV-2009-031-ENG.pdf)
CERD, Consideration of Reports submitted by States Parties under Article 19 of the Convention. Concluding observations of the Committed on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Greece. (http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G09/448/55/PDF/G0944855.pdf?OpenElement)
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| Groups affected/interested | Migrants, Refugees, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities |
| Type (R/D) | Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Anti-semitism, Religious intolerance |
| Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Media |
| External Url | http://www.i-red.eu/resources/publications-files/raxen-ts-2010_racist-hate-crimes-in-greece.pdf |
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