The Impact of Coverage of Corruption Cases in TV News Channels on Illegal Immigration on University Youth in The Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Abstract

This field research aims to know the effect of covering corruption issues in TV news channels on illegal immigration among university youth in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq، which has become one of the issues that have local، regional and international concerns. Immediate and future effects on the political، economic، social، service and cultural aspects on the countries from which immigration takes place and also on the countries that are the target of illegal immigrants. Cases of corruption in satellite news channels and the effects of such coverage in pushing university youth to resort to illegal immigrate، the researcher chose an intentional sample of university students in the final stages in the universities of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq، specifically the University of Sulaymaniyah، and it consists of 1000 male and female students. The conclusions I reached، illegal immigration of university youth constitutes one of the complex problems of the respondents، and it came after two problems that are considered the most complex in southern societies، namely administrative corruption and unemployment، which constitute the cause and effect، and illegal immigration is one of the results of administrative corruption، The respondents view the Kurdish news channels as a major supporter of illegal immigration، as they produced programs that encourage immigration on the one hand، and on the other hand، they did not appear to reject this phenomenon in a tangible way through the production of programs that support this idea.