Abstract

TORRE-CANTALAPIEDRA, Eduardo. Journalism, social actors and migration: intertextuality in journalistic discourses on migration. Convergencia [online]. 2018, vol.25, n.77, pp.201-227. ISSN 2448-5799.  https://doi.org/10.29101/crcs.v25i77.9946.

The objective of this paper is to analyze intertextuality in journalistic discourses regarding migration in transit over Mexican territory. Based on 131 informative texts published between 2012 and 2017 in newspaper "El Universal" and following a mixed methodology —descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis— we analyze how such newspaper refers to the voices of social actors in their texts about Central American clandestine transmigration, according to two contrasting practices: routine journalism and investigative journalism. Likewise, inferences are made about the power that different actors have over and in journalistic discourses, that is, the access they have to these discourses and the control they exert over their characteristics. The voices of the state actors were the most frequently mentioned and in a way that allows us to infer a considerable, but not absolute, power over journalistic discourses.

Keywords : migration policy; migration in transit through Mexico; Central Americans; critical analysis of journalistic discourse; national press.