News frames about the Migrant Caravan of 2018 in Mexican digital newspapers
Abstract
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: 1) the way the press treated the issue of the Migrant Caravan of October 19th, 2018; 2) how these newspapers reported about the caravan; and, 3) what was the representation of the migrant. The result yielded four frames and 16 subcategories: 1) international relations, 2) human rights, 3) conflict, and 4) 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: 1) description by others; 2) narrative of migrants; 3) metaphorical definition, and 4) situations of violence; description by others predominate, as well as situations of violence, while metaphorical language associates migrants with natural phenomena.
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