Abstract
In this chapter, we describe an experience designed to link social journalism and international cooperation that has been designed and implemented for the past five years through a collaboration between the Galician Association of Reporters for Solidarity (Agareso) and the Cooperation for Peace Assembly (ACPP). In 2015, this project once again sponsored the visit of three young journalists to Morocco in order to establish contact with local organizations dedicated to development work. Gaining a direct perspective by engaging in face-to-face contact with the people involved serves to unsettle stereotypes and prejudices that tend to be transmitted through hegemonic media representations. We also analyze some of the ways that western journalism tends to reproduce stereotypical representations of immigration, and present a series of recommendations for a more conscientious practice.
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From the second edition onward, the seminar was supported by the Xunta de Galicia’s Directorate General of Foreign and European Union Relations, as part of a broader development education project.
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NGDO founded in 2008 to promote communication as a means of transforming the world, with the goal of social justice. To this end, the organization has carried out projects in the global north and south, especially involving people at risk of social exclusion (http://www.agareso.org). The authors of this chapter are journalists working for Agareso.
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According to the Unión Romaní, a Spanish NGO dedicated to defending the rights of the Roma (gypsy) community, the percentage of Galician news articles depicting the Roma population in a negative light rose to 41.86%, situating Galicia in second place among the 17 Spanish autonomous communities and doubling the national average (20.41%).
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The blog of the fifth edition can be consulted at https://xornalismosocial5.wordpress.com/. The entries on migration are collected under the heading “diversidade cultural” (cultural diversity). For “De Nador a Tánger,” see http://agaresoseminario.blogspot.com.es/.
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Novoa, T., Otero, A., Vázquez, P., Novas, C. (2018). Communicating About Migrations, Dismantling Prejudices: An Experience of Social Journalism Linking Galicia and Morocco. In: DePalma, R., Pérez-Caramés, A. (eds) Galician Migrations: A Case Study of Emerging Super-diversity. Migration, Minorities and Modernity, vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66305-0_22
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