Refugees and the olympic games: the media representation of the IOC's inclusion initiative at the Tokyo 2020 games

Authors

  • Fernanda Paraguassu Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • Mohammed ElHajji Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/extraprensa2022.199539

Keywords:

Refuge, Representation, Media, Olympic Games

Abstract

Since Olympic Games Rio 2016, a team of refugee athletes has reminded the world of the contemporary humanitarian challenge and competes without carrying their own country's flag. The purpose of the article is to reflect on the initiative of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to contribute to the inclusion and facilitate the process of integration of refugees into the host communities, based on the media representation of the Olympic refugee team's participation in the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. The special sections of the newspapers O Globo and Folha de S.Paulo published during the mega sporting event held in 2021 will be qualitatively analyzed to identify how the “Other” is represented or even “forgotten”. After all, why include refugees in the Olympic Games? What is the meaning of this inclusion? To what extent do human rights narratives include to exclude, maintain prejudices and reproduce stereotypes?

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Author Biographies

  • Fernanda Paraguassu, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

    Fernanda Paraguassu is a journalist, PhD student in Communication and Culture at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), researcher at the Diaspotics group on transnational migration, linked to the UFRJ School of Communication.

  • Mohammed ElHajji, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

    Mohammed ElHajji is a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), a member of the Postgraduate Programs in Communication and Social Psychology, a researcher at CNPq, professor and local coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Master in Transnational Migrations.

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Published

2022-12-15

How to Cite

Paraguassu, F., & ElHajji, M. (2022). Refugees and the olympic games: the media representation of the IOC’s inclusion initiative at the Tokyo 2020 games. Revista Extraprensa, 15(2), 127-145. https://doi.org/10.11606/extraprensa2022.199539