Trabajo, género y migración: una aproximación al estudio de los discursos sobre las trabajadoras inmigrantes en la prensa española

The progressive feminization of poorness and migrant processes in the actual frame of the globalization work market reveals the importance acquired, on the one side, by sexual division of work in the maintenance of women subordination and reproduction of capitalist system and, on the other side, by the sex-gender alternative in the way in which new multicultural societies are transforming and shaping themselves. In this context, the central place occupied by the media in the contemporary panorama ¿in the economic and political frame and also in its symbolic and ideological dimension¿ turns them into a privileged sphere to study how they configure collective imaginaries about female migrations and, definitively, how they construct this social reality that not only refers to work but, on the contrary, affects all levels of women life: the relationships established between gender systems and work market, family, gender relations and the way in which men and women are culturally and historically conceived, the constructions of individual and collective identities, sexual segregation of space or the values socially ascribed to each gender. This work intends to analyze the different discourses about immigrant women workers in the Spanish press, attending three of the most relevant spheres in the work context in which immigrant women insert themselves in the Spanish society and in the media agenda: domestic service, work in agriculture and prostitution. In this line, the Critical Discourse Analysis that we methodologically propose tries to join micro and macro-sociological levels and to attend the relationships established between textual structures and social practices and contexts, in order to explain and understand the strategies used in the construction of these racist and sexist discourses and its contrast with the social reality of this collective. On the other hand, application of gender perspective to the intercultural communication area will contribute to go forward investigating on this hardly explored field that has already an antecedent in other disciplines like anthropology or sociology which have already investigated fields like multiculturalism and gender