Senegalese immigration to Brazil and France: race, representation and media discourses

Authors

  • Letícia Núñez Almeida Universidad de La República http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2486-5511
  • Thais Dutra Fernández Institut d'études politiques de Paris - Sciences Po
  • José Oviedo Pérez Ohio State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/cg.v10i1.77789

Abstract

This article analyzes how different media sources characterize the immigration of Senegalese individuals towards Brazil and France. It aims to study the discourse adopted by local media, specifically print media, in the process of denoting and presenting contemporary immigration within these two different societies. The hypothesis of this investigation is that the Brazilian and French media label Senegalese immigration through a discriminatory discourse, based on racial, religious and/or sexual prejudices. Towards that end, a discourse analysis research method was employed on approximately 100 individual news pieces from Brazilian and French newspapers between 2010-2020, to examine how these media discourses are similar/different from each other. This article concludes that immigration remains a contested process in these two countries, subject to the effect of historical legacies such as slavery and colonialism.

 

Keywords: Senegalese immigration; Media discourses; Brazil; France.

Author Biographies

Letícia Núñez Almeida, Universidad de La República

Doutora em Sociologia pela Universidade de São Paulo/USP, con pós-doutorado no PPGEEI/UFRGS, docente e pesquisadora da Universidad de la República del Uruguay e investigadora da Asociación Nacional de Investigación e Innovación del Uruguay/ANII.

Thais Dutra Fernández, Institut d'études politiques de Paris - Sciences Po

Mestra em Human Rights and Humanitarian Action no Institut d'études politiques de Paris - Sciences Po (2020), com especialização em Migração e em Direitos Humanos e mestra em Estudos Estratégicos Internacionais pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2019). Bacharel em Direito pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2016) e em Relações Internacionais pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (2013). Atuou como advogada nas áreas de migração e refúgio no Grupo de Assessoria a Imigrantes e a Refugiados (GAIRE) da UFRGS. Igualmente contribuiu com a Law School Clinic da Sciences Po na área de migração atuando juntamente à associação Comede - Comité pour la santé des exilés, com solicitantes de asilo em situação de vulnerabilidade médica enquadrados no Regulamento Dublin III.

José Oviedo Pérez, Ohio State University

Doutorando em Ciência Política na Ohio State University e possui Mestrado em Estudos Estratégicos Internacionais pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2019). Pérez também possui graduação em Ciência Política e Estudos Latino-Americanos pela University of Florida (2014) e foi Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Student no Brasil durante o 2015.

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Almeida, L. N., Dutra Fernández, T., & Oviedo Pérez, J. (2021). Senegalese immigration to Brazil and France: race, representation and media discourses. Conjuntura Global, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.5380/cg.v10i1.77789

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