This video looks back at the purpose of the BRIDGES project and the work carried out over three years of research. In view of the EU elections, the video also highlights the relevance of the BRIDGES project and issues four recommendations for EU policymakers to encourage a more balanced and evidence-based debate on migration.

What kind of migration narratives are dominant in the EU? And how to they actually influence EU policymaking processes? Florian Trauner and Omar Ba discuss this topic in view of the 2024 EU elections, in a podcast conducted by Gaia Romero.

This infographic offers a visual synthesis of the prevailing migration narratives in the EU political and policy debates in 2015 and 2022, and sums up the recommendations to contribute to shaping narratives for fairer, comprehensive, and balanced European policy responses to migration and asylum.

This infographic offers a visual synthesis of the relationship between media narratives and political debate (communicative sphere) and the relationship between those and policymaking (coordinative sphere).

How do narratives shape our thoughts and actions? What’s the effect of testimonial narratives on people’s attitude towards migration? This infographic sums up the main conclusions of the BRIDGES Working Paper on the influence of narratives on attitudes towards migrants.

This serie of videos aims to reflect on the impact that migration narratives have in different spheres: their influence on individual attitudes towards migrants; in policymaking at national level; and in the political sphere at the EU level.

How can we create new narratives on migration? How can we promote alternative, more inclusive accounts on these issues against the backdrop of increasingly polarised and exclusionary discourses? This infographic sums up the tips and guidelines contained in the Toolkit on ‘New ways of telling migration’, produced by Por Causa.

How can civil society organisations help counter exclusionary discourses on migration? What are the best strategies to promote inclusive accounts from the grassroots? Civil society representatives from Germany, Italy, and Spain bring their own experiences to the 2nd programme of the BRIDGES Podcast Series.

How can civil society challenge hegemonic and exclusionary migration narratives? BRIDGES researchers explored the initiatives and strategies of different civil society organisations in Italy, Germany and Spain and the factors leading to the success of the narratives they promoted.

What frames are used in traditional and social media to explain migrants’ arrivals? What are the main narratives we can find? This infographic sums up the main conclusions of the BRIDGES Working Paper on migration narratives in traditional and social media.