Immigration and globalization: an approach from the printed Spanish mass media / Inmigración y globalización: una aproximación desde los medios de comunicación escritos españoles

Abstract

The aim of this work is to show how immigrants and immigration are represented in the Spanish press and to try to demonstrate the way news can create and feed social false conceptions that make the practice of interculturality very difficult. We want to analyze the degree to which localities and territories still control our global cities and in what manner the arrival of immigrants carries with it a new concept of citizen and identity. Finally, we are interested in exploring the identity model that the mass media communicates and consolidates and if this serves to promote dialogue between cultures or, on the contrary, is perpetuating the gap between "us" and "them."

Keywords

• Sociology of language
• discourse analysis
• ideology
• mass media
• migrations
• globalization