How are migrants referred to in the media What roles do they play and when are they quoted in news reports on immigration Whose views are implicitly reinforced Have these changed similarly in different European newspapers in recent years Media and Migrants systematically addresses such questions by exploring the representation of immigration in two relatively new reception countries Spain and Ireland over the past decade. It focuses on the discourses reproduced in four newspapers El Pas ABC The Irish Times and the Irish Independent in 1990 1996 and 19992000. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are combined within a Critical Discourse Analysis framework mainly based on discoursehistorical and sociocognitive approaches. The analysis of descriptive and content categories is followed by the scrutiny of strategies of reference predication intertextuality and argumentation. The results illustrate an ongoing convergence of perceptions and discourses on ethnic alterity in Europe as collective self and other are being redefined in the context of supranational integration and increasing migration worldwide.