Diversidades

Diversidades: Perspectivas multidisciplinarias
para el estudio de la interculturalidad y el desarrollo social
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Palabras clave: migración, género, violencia, representaciones, medios de
comunicación.
Abstract: The woman and the foreigner were in western antiquity, specifically
Greek, relegated subjects of the political issues, because they don´t possess the status
of citizen that was only given to those “born of the earth”. These subjects were
built as “scapegoats” that had to be slaughtered and / or expelled from the community
as a way of healing the same (one example is Medea, woman, sorceress, foreign
and murder of their own children). In modernity, the violence against both
figures has persisted under less obvious ways that are mounted on the game of
visibility and invisibility. The media make a peculiar space for the construction of
imaginary to re-create and promote the circulation of symbolic violence against
these two representations. Consequently, this paper aims to study the representation
of the figure of the woman in the hegemonic media and the migrants media.
Specifically, we circumscribe to those communities that suffered discrimination
and xenophobia in Argentina during the 1990s such as Bolivians, Peruvians
and Paraguayans. The aim is to analyze the conflicts and tensions on gender and
migration speeches that are seen in the media today when public policies are more
democratic and inclusive with regard to these issues, as discriminatory speeches,
reification and anti-hospitable behaviour.
Keywords: migration, gender violence, representations, media.
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