RT Journal Article
T1 Women and Refugees in Twitter: Rethorics of Abuse, Vulnerability and Violence from a Gender Perspective
A1 Gallego Durán, María Mar
A1 Gualda, Estrella
A1 Rebollo Díaz, Carolina
AB In this unprecedented humanitarian crisis, women refugees are experiencingextreme vulnerability and violence, both during their journey and in the camps. Ourobjectives through this article are to analyze how women are being treated in theSocial Media (images, discourses, social representations, or narratives). Data for thisarticle were extracted from Twitter (with the help of Nodel XL Pro), from which wecollected 1,807,901 tweets about “refugees”, using this word as search strings in sixdifferent languages. One complete year was covered (starting at mid-2015). Our finaldataset was composed of 862,999 tweets. Results suggest that women refugees aretargeted just because of their gender. Women are constantly victimized andmistreated due to the perpetuation of a patriarchal outlook that justifies abusingwomen. We also found many discourses disseminated through Twitter that rejectrefugees based on disproportionate generalizations and stereotypes, and unfoundedand radicalised arguments., using gender difference to feed racism and xenophobia.
PB Journal of Mediterranean Knowledge-JMK
SN 2499-930X
YR 2017
FD 2017-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/15200
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/15200
LA eng
NO Gallego, M., Gualda, E. & Rebollo, C. (2017): “Women and Refugees in Twitter: Rethorics on Abuse, Vulnerability and Violence from a Gender Perspective”, Journal of Mediterranean Knowledge, 2(1), 37-58, doi:10.26409/2017JMK2.1.03
NO Universidad de Huelva Estrategia Político-Científica 2016-2017; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Research Project ”Bodies in Transit,” Ref. FFI2013-47789-C2-1-P); Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026