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The evolution of the terms referring to people on the move: a discursive analysis of media discourse in French and Dutch

par Mistiaen, Valériane Marie
Référence Séminaire ReSIC (Centre de Recherche en Information et Communication) (08/10/2018: Université libre de Bruxelles)
Publication Non publié, 2018-10-08

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Following the war in Syria, diverging European positions regarding displaced people have placed immigration in the political and media spotlight. Various factors contribute to creating the discursive event in the media and thus the idea people have of migrations. These factors include governments and politicians challenging the right to asylum, local populations heightened awareness following shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea, nationalism and fear of terrorists trying to infiltrate refugees.Words defining people in migration (e.g. refugee, migrant, immigrant, asylum-seeker, illegal, displaced person) are not fixed in time. Indeed, their meaning and reference evolve according to events and social representations, contributing to constructing both the public issue and the image of the social actors involved.The aim of this research is to understand, through a lexical discourse analysis, the evolution of the meanings of the terms mentioned above and the way they are used in Belgian national media in French and Dutch. The analysis will focus on newspapers and television news from March 2015 to July 2017.