In this article, a section is devoted to a look at a sympathetic media to the migrant’s human rights, with reference to two distinct periods: in the first block, the material dates from 1995 to 1997 – focussing on certain texts, debates in the North American congress and the media, run in a monthly publication – Migration News – which monitors policies and actions related to international migration in different countries.  In the second block, the reference is various notes and articles run between 2003 and 2004 by the network on migration NIEM[1], on the internet, which allow for an overview of the most important texts in the international media on the subject of migration.

Preceding the analysis of the media, are brief references to the representation of the migrant in literature, in order to illustrate the plasticity of the issue and, as announced at the start of the text, as the foreigner is an “other” represented by “others”, exemplified through a range of references.

At the end a debate is presented on the concept of strangeness, questioning the frontiers between “us”, the natives, and the “others” and how the State use such differences to scape its responsibilities with all.

[1] NIEM-Migratory Studies Interdisciplinary Nucleus of the University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)