Pakistan Social Sciences Review April-June 2021, Vol. 5, No. 2 [543-555] P-ISSN 2664-0422 O-ISSN 2664-0430 RESEARCH PAPER “The Others” Lexical and Textual Representation (Bias) of Refugees: A Critical Discourse Analysis of American and Pakistani Press Saima Khan 1 Hafiz Bilal Ahsan 2 Muhammad Tariq* 3 1. M. Phil Mass Communication, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan 2. MS Film & TV, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan 3. Ph. D. Scholar, Department of Mass Communication, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan PAPER INFO ABSTRACT Received: February 17, 2021 Accepted: May 01, 2021 Online: May 15, 2021 Refugees are among the most vulnerable humans in the world. Their representation in media creates particular perception among the masses. This research aims to analyze media discourse of Pakistani and American newspapers regarding refugees. For this purpose Fairclough’s 3Dmodel of CDA has been applied. CDA focuses on language manipulation to maintain power and propagation of hidden ideologies in text through media. To explore the lexical and textual othering of refugees it has been found that the media discourses of the given newspapers tend to mold ideologies using language as a tool. It renders unknown people (refugees) crossing border to take refuge in the host countries as outsiders. The findings of the CDA reveal that textual representation of refugees in the definedmedia represents them as “the others”, unwanted foreigners who are not welcome into the host countries. Keywords: CDA, lexical, Media. Others, Refugees *Corresponding Author xpertyz@gmail.c om Introduction This study intends to focus on Pakistani (Dawn and The News) and American (The New York Times and The Washington Post) newspapers to analyze the representation of refugees during one year i.e. May 2017 to April 2018. . The large inflow of refugees has strongly affected the host countries in all aspects. Financial pressures and distress over national security and cultural adjustments have caused the formation and endorsement of anti-immigrant bodies and campaigns in the various countries of Europe for example Greece, France and some of the Scandinavian states. (Berry, Blanco, & Moore, 2015). The problems are being faced by refugees are numerous. Families have to face multiple cultural and resettlement hurdles as they seek refuge in host countries.