Marginality, Fear & Violence - Media Representations of the Migrant Crisis in the Canary Islands
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2021-06-17
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This thesis explores the representation of irregular migration to the Canary Islands in Western news media through analyzing the use of a photograph of boat migrants at a beach on the archipelago by Bauluz in four different English-language news articles published in 2020.
It does so through a critical discourse analysis of the agendas behind the news articles, drawing on the methodology developed by Fairclough. Furthermore, techniques from Rose’s visual analysis and the theoretical framework of Barthes’ Camera Lucida are applied to the photograph.
The thesis focuses especially on the differences in media discourses regarding tourism and irregular migration, the Othering of irregular migrants, and the biopolitical control and structural violence against them at the external borders of the EU. Furthermore, it recognizes that the thesis itself has similar shortcomings as the media representations, which tend to homogenize irregular migrants. Hence, the limitations of individual positionality shape migration discourses.
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