It is the term that was used in 2015 and later years in Europe to refer to the arrival of numerous people fleeing the war in Syria and arriving in Europe through Turkey. Refugees were also included as asylum seekers from other places and also migrants for economic reasons. The difficulties in reaching the countries of the European Union, the numerous deaths that occurred in the Mediterranean and, above all, the refusal of many countries of the European Union to “welcome” these people in the terms indicated by the established norms were the reasons that contributed to the construction of the expression “refugee crisis”. However, it must be thought that the reason for the crisis was not in those people, but in the inability of democratic countries to maintain the international rules to deal with these matters.
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The Media Representation of Refugee Women in Spain: The Humanitarian Crisis of the First Female Refugees in the Press
Francisco Javier García Castaño (Universidad de Granada, Spain), Ariet Castillo Fernandez (Universidad de Granada, Spain), and Antolín Granados Martínez (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 31
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7283-2.ch006
Abstract
Research on the migratory phenomenon has produced many studies and from various disciplines. However, the knowledge that citizens have of this phenomenon is linked to the discourse by the media. It is not different in the case of refuge and asylum. The contribution of the authors involves questioning to what extent the media are present in shaping the image of migrations. Until now, the image presented is negative, problematic, conflictive, ethnic, and alarming. But this chapter focuses on refugees and, in particular, refugee women. In the same way that research on the migratory phenomenon shows that immigrant women have not been the subject of notable media coverage, it is to be expected that refugee women are not either. For this reason, it is interesting to check the degree of media coverage of the migratory phenomenon in the press (including the mobility of refugees) during the so-called “refugee crisis” in Europe. The chapter focuses on the news that include the refugee woman. For this purpose, the news published in the Spanish newspaper El País are used.