Imaginarios sobre la emigración irregular de ecuatorianos hacia los Estados Unidos en los medios de comunicación impresos – antes y después de la Ley de Comunicación

Abstract

The paper analyzes the message immersed in the daily El Mercurio and El Comercio newspaper during the year 2014, to establish whether his speech has changed, since the adoption of the Organic Law of Communication on the irregular migration of Ecuadorians to other countries. Therefore, this paper is about the social imaginary within the press and the issue of irregular migration of compatriots to the United States, taking into account the appearance of the Communication Law in 2013. It raises a hypothesis that inclines to affirm changes in relation to these imaginary ones from the reform applied to the mass media and its professionals. In addition, it fixes the process of construction of news with irregular migratory themes and the perception of citizenship. It is concluded that the social imaginaries that exist in relation to irregular emigration are generally negative and it is the media that reinforce or have them present within the perception of the community. The media can vary these imaginary and not a law established for the control of content, therefore, there must be commitment and social responsibility in the journalistic work so that the imaginary about the migration change and with it, the perceptions of the crowd. In this sense, the hypothesis of a structural change of social imaginaries of the irregular emigration of compatriots to the US is discarded. After the Law of Communication.