THE DIASPORA AND THE TRANSNATIONAL EXPERIENCE. MEDIA COVERAGE PRACTICES IN THE ROMANIAN MEDIA (English version)

Camelia Beciu ()
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Camelia Beciu: Scoala Nationala de Studii Politice si Administrative (SNSPA); Institutul de Sociologie al Academiei Romane (Laboratorul Sociologia comunicarii si a spatiului public), Calea 13 Septembrie nr. 13, sector 5, 050711, Bucuresti, România

Revista Romana de Sociologie, 2012, vol. 1-2, 49-66

Abstract: The study analyses the media coverage practices concerning the "new diaspora" - the migration of the Romanian workforce in the countries of the European Union. The main research question relates to how the media builds the image of the migrant, as well as of the emerging forms in which the diaspora presents itself: is the diaspora a "remote" phenomenon (eventually recovered within a policy-media agenda) or, on the contrary, does the press propose varied and nuanced images of the migrant condition, approaching this theme as a public issue? In other words, what forms of "moral distance" does the media build with respect to the Romanians who work abroad? By applying content analysis combined with discourse analysis with respect to two national daily newspapers, the study shows that the press "defines" the diaspora as an abstract reality, in a sketchy presentation of idealized characters vs. negative characters. As such, the media establishes an imagery of compassion and benevolent attention - an exterior reality of the national public. The media discourse does not point out the particularities of the diasporic experience in the context of the various types of mobility.

Keywords: diaspora; intra-EU migration; media discourse; public issue; remote suffering; moral distance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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