Migration and media during the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of news articles published in the newspaper Folha de São Paulo
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https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-85852503880006211Keywords:
migration, media, COVID-19, social representationsAbstract
This study aimed at analysing social representations of migration/migrants conveyed by the newspaper Folha de São Paulo in 2020, a year marked by the COVID-19 pandemic. We analysed 839 news articles with the software Iramuteq, by means of the Descending Hierarchical Classification. We identified six lexical clusters, which addressed migration both as a political matter, involving debates on economic and security issues, and as a human experience, based on the life experiences of migrants in different contexts. The results showed how, on the one hand, the COVID-19 pandemic deepened preexisting
inequalities and intensified discriminatory practices against migrants. And how, on the other hand, combined with other “key events”, such as the
US election and the anti-racism protests.
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