Representations of migrant women in the cybermedia of Mexico, Spain and the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

The objective of this research article is to analyze and compare the information coverage carried out by cybermedia from Mexico, the United States and Spain on the situation in which migrant women of Mexican, Central American and African origin find themselves who transit and cross the border between Mexico and the United States or across the Mediterranean Sea to Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research is approached from gender theory, feminist theory, framing theory and the theory of social representations. It is based on the technique of content analysis of the headlines of the informative notes that were published two years after the emergence of COVID-19 in cyber media in Mexico, the United States and Spain. In the results, the invisibility of these migrant women is observed, as well as the vulnerability and stereotypes with which they are represented, criminalized and excluded from society.