The Time of the Outside: Exploring the Representation of Migrant and Refugee Individuals in Local Newspapers

This chapter seeks to ascertain to what extent media, especially local media, is portraying refugees in that “time of the outside” and what are its main implications. Based on the idea that media reinforces representations that collaborate in reproducing processes of invisibility and discrimination of people holding the status of refugees, the text provides a view about the ways media may be a more powerful means for generating time coevalness, which is important for refugee people to experience a sense of continuousness in their lives, through obliging to dislocate in abrupt manners from their home countries. The methodology includes a literature review on time and migration, along with a content analysis of articles on refugees published in two reputable local newspapers, Diário do Minho and Correio do Minho, covering the Northern region of Portugal, with a focus on the Braga District from January 2017 to June 30, 2023.