A crise de refugiados sírios de 2015 na mídia: uma análise comparativa entre as coberturas de BBC e Al Jazeera à luz do orientalismo

Abstract

This dissertation aims to compare BBC’s and Al Jazeera’s coverage of the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis in order to analyze how they reproduce Orientalism, which we understand as a form of representation of the East by the West, placing the former in an inferior position to the latter and using stereotypes with the goal to create a relation of domination. The research problem consists of the following question: how does the logic of inferiorization of the other as pointed out in Orientalism according to Said continue to be in force in the practice of media coverage of the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis? Using the content analysis method to examine the empirical material, that is, the articles from the media networks in question, this research concludes, not fully confirming the hypothesis, that the coverage of the BBC and Al Jazeera, seen separately, were not mostly orientalist, but, comparing one with the another, the first was more orientalist than the second, and the Qatari network also sought to be more anti-orientalist than the British.