Aspectos Tecnológicos Ambientales:

This study has shed light on the importance of evaluating how media

representations play a major role in the way asylum seekers are represented and thereby contribute to how borders are constructed. In order to answer the research questions formulated a theory of knowledge that sees reality as both constitutive and constituted by discourse have guided the study. The study has been informed by the theories developed in the research field of critical geopolitics that have emphasised the importance of rethinking the spatiality of power in terms of discursive practices. Furthermore, Foucault has provided invaluable ideas of how one should discourse as power. Fairclough (1992,1995) and Hajer (1995) have provided insight into how one can go about approaching discourse where especially the latter was important as it supplied valuable analytical tools that were useful in the analysis. By analysing the diverging discourse – coalitions in letters to the editor the paper concludes that there is a need to further evaluate the role of media in the marginalising groups.

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