The Discourse over the Opening up of Brazilian Universities to Contemporary Migrations in Digital Journalism

Abstract This paper analyzes the functioning of the journalistic discourse on the access of refugee students in Brazilian higher education. The research comprehends the period from 2015 to 2019, where the number of institutions with “easy access” increased significantly, as well as the visibility of those subjects in the media. We based the analysis on five discursive sequences, these extracted from five news, and selected from an archive containing 23 journalistic texts published on online portals in the aforementioned period. From the theoretical and methodological perspective of Franco-Brazilian discourse studies, and considering the specificities of the journalistic discourse in digital media, the study discusses different discursive practices that inscribe the university entrance as a promise of both socioeconomic insertion and integration in the country of arrival.