The Cultural Construction of Migrant Women in the Italian Press

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3906265
AutoresA Giorgi (0000-0003-2188-2682, University of Coimbra, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume16
Fascículo16
Data de publicação2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
Periódicoe-cadernos CES (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1647-0737 • E-ISSN: 1647-0737
EditoraOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/eces.1026
OpenAlexW2155658076
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas24

This contribution focuses on the migrant women’s portraits that emerge in the Italian press. This discursive arena is dealt with by paying attention to what is taken for granted in the discourses about migrant women and their reproductive rights and behaviours. The analysis is based on a dataset of 634 newspapers articles, published between June 2005 and July 2012, and include both partisan, non-partisan, and religious press. It highlights the culturalization of migrant women, mainly portrayed as victims, and points to the high risk of xenophobic manipulation and political instrumentalization of migrant women’s rights

Economic growth · Media studies · Migrant workers · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Portrait · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Italian Social Issues and Migration · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration