Gender and migration discourse in British newspapers

We delivered a presentation about the representation of (im)migrants in British newspapers, wherein we focused on the gendered and gendering discourses in the depiction of migrants in the Sun newspaper from the time periods of 22th February 2016 to 7th March 2016, and from 22th February 2020 to 7th March 2020.

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The presentation was delivered virtually at the Media Semiotics research group of the Laboratory of Semiotic Research (SemioLab) of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Greece.