A cobertura jornalística sobre refugiados da Venezuela no Brasil

Abstract

Brazilian media have carried out news coverage about Venezuelan immigrants and the conflicts generated by migratory flows. Our research presents the representation of the immigrant figure in the media between 2018 and 2019. This period was marked by specific narratives that we recorded as divided into two moments. The research used the theory and methodology of French Discourse Analysis and developed the qualitative study around these representations. The study is based on Orlandi and Souza's concepts in the tradition of Michel Pêcheux and investigated the speech through verbal and visual through three national newscasts and two news portals on the Internet. The research sample involved 60 stories and took into consideration the context of production and circulation of this news, as well as the form of their narratives and constituents of their discourse. The central concepts worked on Diaspora, Identity, and Migration were based on cultural studies of British tradition, based on the theoretical matrix defined with Stuart Hall. The research concludes the migratory phenomenon as represented in the media as an unnatural element in society, which affects the way society perceives the migrant individual and the mass collectives of migrations.