“Syrians and Guantanamo detainees”
Asylum and refuge written press coverage in Uruguay between 2014/2018
Abstract
This paper analyses the mediatic discourses on refuge in Uruguay between 2014/2018, with the aim to understand the argumentative and ideological operations that conduct written press discourses in Uruguay in order to influence the formation of interpretative frameworks. The editorials and readers' letters of two of the best-selling media in the country are analyzed from the perspective of critical discourse analysis. The quantitative approach is set up by building a database (927 press releases) and the qualitative approach by analyzing the corpus’ content (13 editorials and 46 readers’ letters). The paper concludes that discursive strategies were targeted to set a specific media agenda around the political consequences of receiving “muslim” refugees in Uruguay, and to intervene the poltical agenda of the left-wing goverment leaded by José Mujica.
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