Open seminar INMIX-UAB: Degree activity - Doctorate training activity

Summary: The seminar will analyze how the media in Spain contribute to the perpetuation of power asymmetries by representing migrants and refugees from the Global South through simplistic stereotypes, reducing the diversity that characterizes migratory movements to subjects without agency, victims/criminals, and dehumanized. From a critical analysis of the discourse and using concepts of postcolonial and intersectional feminism, we will debate the importance of media discourses towards these people, the disparity in treatment according to origin and the narrative about the feminization of migration. In addition, the strategies of racialized activists to resist these discourses will be discussed.

Speaker: Franca Ferrari Fuks

Bio: degree in International Relations from the National University of Sant Martí (UNSAM); Master's in Migration Studies from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). I am a Digital Officer, Community Manager and Copywriter Editor at Médecins Sans Frontières Spain.