Crisis de la caravana de migrantes: Algunas realidades sobre el discurso público en Twitter

Abstract

The study aims to exploreTwitter content tofind out the confrontational structure of onlinepublic discourseduring the migrant caravan crisisof2018. To carry out this approach, anexploratory quantitative method was chosen to analyzea representative universe of the messages published on the platform from January1 to February 15, 2019. The findings indicate —among others—that the public discourse on the caravan is transnational, widely stimulated by the media,and for the most part, expresses neutral sentiment. However, the articulation of the media landscape and the rhetorical structure of the migrationcrisis seem to exhibit similarities and differences between countries of receiving tradition and transit. For thelatter, it is suggested to extendthe research to othertechnological means involved in the construction/deconstruction of the migratory narrative.