Promoting diversity? The representation of the migrated women in the Catalonian public television (TV3)

Abstract

The audiovisual representation of the migrations is a strongly discussed theme in Europe of these last years. In the Spanish case, as a consequence to the strong critics to the treatment that the media dispenses to the collective mi­grated, there have been created ethic recommendations and even entities such as the Table for the Diversity in the Audiovisual productions trying to improve the content of the representations of the migrations. Although apparently these measures have not radically altered the television news reports, new proposals of approximation to the migra­tory phenomena can be observed. The programs of non-fiction scientific divulgation about the migration experience represent an innovative tendency in the television programming both Catalonian and Spanish. In this article we analyze the representations about the migrated women in this kind of programs broadcast by the TV3 channel which in 2006 created, internally, a Commission for the Diversity.