News frames about the Migrant Caravan of 2018 in Mexican digital newspapers Encuadres noticiosos sobre la Caravana Migrante del 2018 en periódicos digitales mexicanos Academic Article in Scopus uri icon

abstract

  • © 2021 Universidad Complutense de Madrid. All rights reserved.This article analyzes three Mexican newspapers of national circulation: ¿El Universal¿, ¿La Jornada¿ and ¿Reforma¿, 211 notes were released with 1564 references. The study is qualitative and quantitative, it includes: the way the press treated the issue of the Migrant Caravan of October 19th, 2018; how these newspapers reported about the caravan; and, what was the representation of the migrant. The result yielded four frames and 16 subcategories: international relations, human rights, conflict, and representation of the migrant. ¿La Jornada¿ had a greater presence in the categories and ¿Reforma¿ had less. The representation of the migrant was linked to: description by others; narrative of migrants; metaphorical definition, and situations of violence; description by others predominate, as well as situations of violence, while metaphorical language associates central American migrants with natural phenomena.

publication date

  • February 25, 2021