MIGRATORY INSECURITY IN THE PRINT MEDIA OF MEXICO CITY

Abstract

Migratory insecurity has been a central issue in the international agenda of the developed countries and emerging countries. To the extent that migration is associated with insecurity, international conflicts and their corresponding changes could change global geopolitics. However, the relevance of the migratory insecurity seems to charge a greater boom in joints such as the presidential or parliamentary elections in which the pre-candidates or candidates insert in their proselytizing platform the theme of migration, in reference to national security. Such socio-political electoral process, is covered to a greater or lesser extent by the mass media that, in the particular case of Mexico’s presidential election, appears to correspond with the internal pre-campaigns in which the issue of insecurity has been ubiquitous in general, but ignored the migratory insecurity in particular. In this sense, a retrospective study was carried out with a selected sample of briefing notes in the press with national circulation. Based on the Establishment Setting Theory (EST) and its cycle of mediatization, an Index of Mediatization of Migratory Insecurity (IMMI) was built to measure the bias of the print media on the subject. The results show that the coverage of the migratory insecurity, during the period of September 2011 to April 2012 is low. The findings are discussed in the light of the TEA and its cycle of mediatization.