Immigrants and ethnic minorities in the pandemic: Case study of the mediatic coverage of the Portuguese weekly press – the Expresso and Sábado ; Imigrantes e minorias étnicas na pandemia: Estudo de caso da cobertura mediática na imprensa semanal portuguesa – o Expresso e a Sábado

On March 11, 2020, the WHO declared the Covid-19 a pandemic and from that moment on, the media became an essential stage for public health agents. The media universe was not reduced, however, to the pandemic. Migrations have been constantly present in the media agenda and, at a time marked by a health crisis, they are an extremely important object of study to analyze. The fact that it is a virus whose propagation originated in China undoubtedly brought back to the public debate binomial 'Us' and 'Them', one of the main characteristic of discourses about migrants (Boréus, 2020; Cohen, 2011; Cot... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Magalhães, Catarina
Santos , Clara Almeida
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
Verlag/Hrsg.: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
Schlagwörter: Representation / Pandemic / Immigration / Ethnic minorities / Media / Representação / Pandemia / Imigração / Minorias étnicas
Sprache: Portuguese
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On March 11, 2020, the WHO declared the Covid-19 a pandemic and from that moment on, the media became an essential stage for public health agents. The media universe was not reduced, however, to the pandemic. Migrations have been constantly present in the media agenda and, at a time marked by a health crisis, they are an extremely important object of study to analyze. The fact that it is a virus whose propagation originated in China undoubtedly brought back to the public debate binomial 'Us' and 'Them', one of the main characteristic of discourses about migrants (Boréus, 2020; Cohen, 2011; Cottle, 2006). Therefore, we intend to assess how immigrants and ethnic minorities were represented during the first year of the pandemic, in the Portuguese weekly press, and what was the influence of the pandemic on the coverage of the theme. To achieve this goal, a quantitative content analysis of a corpus collected from the Expresso newspaper and the Sábado magazine was carried out, consisting of 296 pieces. We have reached the conclusion that immigrants and ethnic minorities remain present on the news agenda, even with the prevalence of the pandemic in the media context ; A 11 de março de 2020, a OMS declarou a pandemia de Covid-19 e, a partir desse momento, os media tornaram-se um palco de primeira necessidade para agentes de saúde pública. O universo mediático não se reduziu, no entanto, à pandemia. As migrações têm sido uma constante na agenda mediática e, num momento marcado por uma crise sanitária, revelam-se um objeto de estudo sobremaneira importante de analisar. O facto de se tratar de um vírus cuja propagação se iniciou na China fez regressar indubitavelmente ao debate público o binómio ‘Nós’ e ‘Eles’, característica dos discursos sobre migrantes (Boréus, 2020; Cohen, 2011; Cottle, 2006). Assim, pretendemos avaliar como foram representados os imigrantes e minorias étnicas durante o primeiro ano de pandemia, na imprensa semanal portuguesa, e qual a influência da pandemia na cobertura da temática. Para tal, foi ...