Van Dijk (1991) found that minority ethnic groups are represented as a 'Threat'
Tabloids often use scare tactics to worry people about migrants & asylum-seekers taking jobs and abusing the welfare state
Nahdi (2003) found that representations of Islam have been seen as a mixture of some fair-minded portrayals alongside widespread stereotypical portrayals of Muslims as 'Intolerant, misogynistic, violent or cruel, strange and different'