La visibilidad de los Centros de Internamiento de Extranjeros: dinámicas entre el movimiento asociativo y los periodistas

Antxoka  Agirre Maiora; Maria Ruiz Aranguren; María José  Cantalapiedra Gonzalez

doi:10.4185/RLCS-2015-1078

Authors

Antxoka Agirre Maiora University of the Basque Country-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0470-936X
Maria Ruiz Aranguren University of the Basque Country-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9902-842X
María José Cantalapiedra Gonzalez University of the Basque Country-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4961-2326

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2015-1078

Keywords:

Migration, media analysis, communication strategies, social movements, social role of the media, media influence

Abstract

This article analyses the news coverage of immigration detention centres by Spanish mainstream news media, and the role played by civil associations and journalists when it comes to placing this issue on the media’s agenda. Method. The study is based on the quantitative analysis of the texts published by El País, El Mundo, Abc and eldiario.es, between 2009 and 2013, and in-depth interviews with journalists and representatives of civil associations. Results. Civil associations are the main source of information in news about immigration detention centres. Conclusions. The reports produced with the support of experts, about the conditions of immigration detention centres have enabled civil organisations to articulate a discourse that has been effective to reach the mainstream news media. The results also indicate that the interest of journalists in immigration detention centres has been rather limited.

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Author Biographies

Antxoka Agirre Maiora, University of the Basque Country-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Antxoka Agirre Maiora hold a BA degree in Law and Information Science from the University of the Basque Country. He is a Professor at the Department of Journalism II of the School of Social and Communication Sciences of the University of the Basque Country since 2008.

He has worked as journalist for 20 years in publications such as, Baleike, Gaztezulo and Bertsolari Aldizkaria. He is the current director of the latter. It has also been responsible for communications in projects promoted by social movements.

His main lines of research are quality journalism, slow journalism, specialised cultural journalism, interculturality and informative access to Immigration Detention Centres. Since 012, he is a member of the consolidated HGH research group (Media, Society and Education). Author or co-author of two books, 11 scientific articles.

He has participated in about 20 international conferences, two educational innovation projects and three research projects

Maria Ruiz Aranguren, University of the Basque Country-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

María Ruiz Aranguren holds a PhD degree in Journalism from the University of the Basque Country. Her doctoral thesis is titled Construction of the media discourse on immigration in times of crisis: journalists, immigrants and institutions. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of the Basque Country. She has worked as a journalist in several media, including Diario de Noticias de Navarra, RNE (Madrid), El Correo (Bilbao), and Onda Vasca. She is also a regular contributor for La Pérgola cultural supplement.

Her main lines of research are international migration, strategic communication, news-making media and intercultural communication. Co-author of the ebook Estudio-diagnóstico sobre las asociaciones de migrantes de origen extranjero en Álava y Guipúzcoa(“Study-diagnosis of foreign immigrant associations in Álava and Guipúzcoa”), funded by the Department of Employment and Social Affairs of the Basque Government (2010-2011) and carried out by Bakeaz.

She is currently involved in two research projects and focuses her personal research on the relationship between international relations, migratory movements and legislation in this area.

María José Cantalapiedra Gonzalez, University of the Basque Country-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

María José Cantalapiedra González holds a PhD degree in Information Sciences from the University of the Basque Country. She is a Full Professor at the Department of Journalism II of the School of Social and Communication Sciences, which she directed from 2007 to 2014.

Her research lines revolve around the evolution of journalistic genres, and their transposition to the Internet. Author of more than 20 publications. Director of a research project funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, titled “Application of hypermedia convergence in corporate communication: Open Communication Room”.

She teaches at the MA programme in Multi-media journalism (El Correo-UPV/EHU). The journalist and his working conditions is another of his areas of interest, which is explored in his doctoral thesis. She is the co-author, together with Bezunartea and Coca, of one of the studies of reference: La situación laboral y profesional de los periodistas vascos (“The labour and professional situation of Basque journalists”).

Following this research line, she has directed the theses: “Origin and evolution of the relationship between journalists and military operations. The 2003 Iraq integrated system”, defended in 2011; and “The professional situation of women journalists in the mainstream media in the Basque country”, defended in 2012.
Co-author, together with Rosa M. Martín Sabarís and Begoña Zalbidea, of the style book of EITB, published in 2013.

Director of 15 dissertations, of which eleven have already been defended. She coordinated for 3 years the Conferences of Communication and New Technologies at the School of Social and Communication Sciences of the University of the Basque Country. Director of the Seminary on Digital Journalism, which was held in the University of the Basque Country from 2000 to 2005. Co-director of the Press Conferences from 2000 to its last edition in 2008.

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