This chapter examines immigration as a mediated object, focusing on how media representations shape its construction as a social and political problem. The chapter presents the central claim that immigration does not appear in public discourse as a neutral or ordinary phenomenon, but is systematically framed through media logics that emphasize crisis, threat, and emotional intensity. Moving beyond descriptive approaches, it argues that journalistic representations—structured through recurring frames such as securitization, criminalization, and humanitarianism—play a decisive role in defining who belongs, who threatens, and who deserves protection. Within this framework, the chapter highlights key processes such as crimmigration, moral panic, border spectacularization, and dehumanization, showing how they contribute to the production of a racialized and polarized “Other”. It further argues that the mediatization and politicization of immigration are deeply intertwined, enabling political actors—particularly within populist contexts—to strategically exploit media narratives and platform affordances to amplify conflict, reinforce exclusionary discourses, and consolidate ideological divisions.