Online news coverage of migrants' grief at a distance during COVID-19: A qualitative framing analysis.
Grieving at a distance is a common and often challenging experience for migrants. As a result of travel restrictions and border closures, grieving at a distance became a focus of media reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper aimed to examine the representation of migrants' grief at a dist...
| Published in: | Death Studies Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 25 - 36 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2026
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