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Portrayals of Romanian migrants in ethnic media from Italy [Full text]

Roxana Bratu  [1]

AbstractBased on a qualitative content analysis of a small corpus of newspaper articles, the paper aims to identify the representations of Romanian migrants in the Romanian media from Italy by exploring the portrayals of the main characters and the narratives used to support these portrayals. Arguing that there are important differences between the narrative styles employed for depicting different types of characters, I seek to discuss the implications these differences may have on the conveyed message.

Keywords: Ethnic media, Romanian migrants, narrative, content analysis, discourse analysis

[1] Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, Romania, roxana.bratu@sas.unibuc.ro