CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Syrgak kyzy, Zarena |
|---|---|
| Title | The Media Portrayal of Migrant Women's Lives in the Russian Federation: Control of Women's Sexuality by "Kyrgyz Patriots" |
| Summary | The discourse on mobility and migration being solely a male activity has controlled women’s movement for a relatively long time. It has also influenced the media’s representation of migrants’ lives in receiving countries, where women migrants are either underrepresented or misrepresented. In this paper, I explore the representation of Kyrgyz women migrants in the media of Kyrgyzstan, which is one of the major suppliers of skilled and low-skilled workers to the Russian Federation. Focusing specifically on the violent movement Kyrgyz “patriots”, the top news of Kyrgyzstani news agencies throughout 2012 and 2013, I examine how the media represent women migrant workers in the Russian Federation through the lens of sexuality. For the purpose of the current thesis, the analysis of the media discourses on Kyrgyz migrant women’s lives in the Russian Federation is done based on news articles from three major Kyrgyzstani online news agencies. These are VB.kg (private) Azattyk.kg (private, international) and kloop.kg (independent). By critically analyzing discourses in newspapers of Kyrgyzstan, I trace the “power” of the media to influence the public perception. I argue that the media of Kyrgyzstan being the first in opening the violent and abusive activities of “Kyrgyz patriots” to the public discussion, presented them in patriotic and nationalist frames. This misrepresentation of the movement, as the result, portrayed sexual lives of Kyrgyz woman migrants as “immoral”, “degrading” and “illegal”. |
| Supervisor | Barát, Erzsébet |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/syrgak_zarena.pdf |
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