The discourses and politics of migration in Europe

This book engages with politics and political discourse that relate to and qualify immigration in Europe. It brings together empirical analysis of immigration both topically and contextually, and interprets such empirical evidence with the use of policy and discursive analyses as methodological tools. Thematically, this volume focuses on how discourse and politics operate in issue areas as varied as immigrant integration and multilevel governance, Roma immigration and their respective securitization, the uses of language in determination of asylum applications, gendered immigrants in informal economy, perceptions of integration by the migrants, economic interests and economic nationalism stimulating immigration choices, ideology and entry policies, and asylum processes and the institutional evolution of immigration systems. These issues are analyzed with empirical evidence investigating the discursive formulation of immigration systems in political contexts such as the Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, Turkey, Switzerland, Scandinavian states, and Finland.

Contents Acknowledgements Preface-- Martin Schain Immigration and Integration Policies: Assumptions and Explanations-- Umut Korkut, Gregg Bucken-Knapp and Aidan McGarry PART I: CONSTRUCTION OF THE FOREIGNER 1. Whose Interests Do Radical Right Parties Really Represent? The Migration Policy Agenda of the Swiss People's Party between Nativism and Neoliberalism-- Alexandre Afonso 2. Domestic Work, Gender and Migration in Turkey: Legal Framework Enabling Social Reality-- Hande Eslen-Ziya and Umut Korkut 3. Getting the Message Across: Struggling with EU Safe Country Practices in Asylum-- Sarah Craig PART II: HOST NATIONS 4. The Politicization of Roma as an Ethnic 'Other': Security Discourse in France and the Politics of Belonging-- Aidan McGarry and Helen Drake 5. 'Good' and 'Bad' Immigrants: The Economic Nationalism of the True Finns' Immigration Discourse-- Mikko Kuisma 6. 'A Two-way Process of Accommodation' Public Perceptions of Integration Along the Migration-mobility Continuum-- Kesi Mahendran PART III: LAW AND ORDER 7. Asylum Policy Responsiveness in Scandinavia-- Froy Gudbrandsen 8. The Multi-level Governance of Migrant Integration: A Multi-level Governance Perspective on Dutch Migrant Integration Policies-- Peter Scholten 9. Ideology and Entry Policy: Why Center-Right Parties in Sweden Support Open Door Migration Policies-- Andrea Spehar, Gregg Bucken-Knapp and Jonas Hinnfors 10. The Discourses and Politics of Migration: Policy, Methodology, and Theory-- Umut Korkut, Jonas Hinnfors and Helen Drake Notes Bibliography Index

"Migration is one of the key issues in contemporary European politics and society, placing high on the political agenda in local, national and transnational political contexts, and widely debated in the media. All European states must grapple with the challenges posed when people move across borders. However, little is known about the relationship between the construction and elaboration of political discourse and its impact on institutions and actors associated with immigration, as well as the lives and everyday realities of frequently vulnerable migrant populations. This book engages with politics and political discourse that relate to and qualify immigration in Europe. It brings together empirical analysis of immigration both topically and contextually, and interprets such empirical evidence with the use of policy and discursive analyses as methodological tools"--

"Migration is one of the key issues in contemporary European politics and society, placing high on the political agenda in local, national and transnational political contexts, and widely debated in the media. All European states must grapple with the challenges posed when people move across borders. However, little is known about the relationship between the construction and elaboration of political discourse and its impact on institutions and actors associated with immigration, as well as the lives and everyday realities of frequently vulnerable migrant populations. This book engages with politics and political discourse that relate to and qualify immigration in Europe. It brings together empirical analysis of immigration both topically and contextually, and interprets such empirical evidence with the use of policy and discursive analyses as methodological tools"--