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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

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.

In Hungary, as in all of 'new Europe,' liberalization is troubled. Using Hungary as an in-depth case study, Korkut demonstrates that, in squandering popular goodwill, credibility, and favorable circumstances after 1989, liberal politicians have found themselves vulnerable to conservative populist politics and the global economic crisis. Umut Korkut is a Reader in Politics at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK.

Starting from the empirical observation of high levels of absorption of EU cohesion funds but strikingly low levels of substantive change in regional cohesion, this essay offers a contextual analysis of regional development policies in Hungary. Based on theoretical frameworks dealing with Europeanisation, new regionalism and participative development, it explores the reasons for this observation by analysing the role of administrative and planning structures and of development discourses. The essay shows that the Europeanisation of regional development policy triggered several changes in the planning process and led to the partial inclusion of new actors. However, the main effect of this was a growing centralisation of development policy making. The essay explains this by pointing to the domestic political context and the historical foundations of regional development discourses of the conservative and leftist liberal parties. While there are overlaps between the discourses on both sides of the ideological divide, they are perceived as incompatible by political actors. Thus, it is argued that considerations of political power, rather than ideological nature, shape Hungarian regional and development policy and explain the incremental reform process. Adapted from the source document.

In this article we examine two research questions. The first is how states use their membership in international organizations to attain foreign policy goals, enhance their political visibility, exercise strategic influence in global political affairs, and obtain advantageous policy outcomes. Recently Turkey successfully sought to use international fora, such as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the African Union (AU), with which Turkey has a strategic partnership, to launch initiatives with African states to galvanize action on policy matters of common concern among Turkey and African countries. It would be wrong, however, to claim that Turkey seeks a form of hegemony in Africa, as is widely stated about China, India, and other regional powers in the continent. Instead, following Sandra Destradi, we prefer to view Turkey's presence in Africa as an effort to involve African states in Turkey's pursuit of material gains by convincing those states of their shared values and goals with Turkey. Material gains consist broadly of economic advantages, such as increased trade opportunities and investment, as well as political visibility in global affairs. Economic advantages are easily demonstrable through trade figures, which we present. Political visibility can be qualified on a case-by-case basis, and we examine two such cases. The first is the role of Turkey in the Cotton Forum of the OIC since 2007; the second is Turkey's recent establishment of multilateral and bilateral relations with African states. Adapted from the source document.