This thesis is dedicated to the representation of refugees and the refugee crisis in the Croatian newspapers. The focus of the thesis is on the arrival of refugees from the war torn countries in the Middle East (primarily from Syria and Iraq), which in September of 2015 arrived for the first time inside Croatian borders, which was also the first time that headlines in Croatian media were focused on the topics of immigration and immigrants. This thesis presents a quantitative analysis of all the articles about the refugee crisis from the leading Croatian newspapers (24 sata, Jutarnji List and Večernji list) in the period from the start of September 2015 till 15 October of the same year. It also shows, using the method of critical discourse analysis, the four characteristics that Croatian daily newspapers used while reporting the refugee crisis and representing the refugees. The first characteristic is the one related to the naming of the refugees in the newspaper articles. Another characteristic is the one related to the use of visual images in the said articles, especially photos of policemen and juvenile refugees. The third characteristic is in the wording and metaphors that the Croatian newspapers used in reporting, while the last characteristic is one that of an attempt, by the Croatian newspapers, of contextualisation of refugee crisis in the broad context of "wider" European framework.