South-South migration: A critical discourse analysis of media’s construction of venezuelan refugees in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: de Melo, Bruna Carvalho Badaró
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da EMERJ (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.emerj.com.br/index.php/revistadaemerj/article/view/530
• topic: refugiados venezuelanos; migração sul-sul; análise crítica do discurso; estereótipos; fairclough; venezuelan refugees; south-south migration; critical discourse analysis; stereotypes; Fairclough

This article explores how Venezuelan refugees have been constructed by the Brazilian media during the ongoing refugee crisis in South America. The fact that South-Southmigration has so far been understudied and the relevant and fast-escalating displacement of people from Venezuela were the motivations for this study. Twenty-one articles about Venezuelan refugees published between 2016 and 2021 by three mainstream, conservative newspapers were analyzed. The theoretical framework consisted of Fairclough’s threedimensional model of Critical Discourse Analysis and the theoretical concepts of stereotypes and otherness. The findings revealed that Venezuelans were mainly associated with negative aspects, comprehending two sub-discourses: in the first one, they were constructed as the origin of diseases at the borders and associated with violence and societal tension, and in the second one they were constructed as exploited, underemployed and poorly integrated into the formal labor market. The findings contribute to increasing the understanding of the South-South migration phenomena by detailing the representation of Venezuelan refugees in the Brazilian media and the main discourses related to them.