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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.

AbstractThis article shows how similar humanitarian narratives of states can travel across different geographies in response to refugee crises. Empirically, it follows Turkey's position vis-à-vis the Syrian and Rohingya refugee crises. Considering Turkey's migration management practices, humanitarian activism narrative, and its political ambition to foster domestic and international audiences for this narrative, this article elaborates on how Turkey has become a humanitarian actor responding both to Syrian and the Rohingya crises. In both cases, the Turkish political discourses have been very resonant of each other, despite Syria and Myanmar being in different geographies and proximities to Turkey. The article also shows how Turkish politicians and the civil servants aspired to enhance visibility and credibility of Turkey as a humanitarian actor. Delineating Turkey's humanitarian narrative shows the role of political agency in forging sympathetic domestic and international audiences. Overall, the Turkish case presents how states operate migration regimes at the cusp of discourses and institutions affecting their forced migration management and humanitarian engagements.

This article takes the conservative shift in Polish politics under PiS as an example and argues that the failure of the liberal economy could end up reversing the fast-forward wave in human rights. And because Poland is a relatively new member of the EU, the article also develops the argument that such a reversal in the new member countries could make the European Union's (EU) acquis irrelevant for further democratisation. Therefore, the article first explains how the failure of the economic liberalism of the neo-liberal market economy paves the way for the success of conservative political parties. It then raises the question of why political liberalism, promoted by the EU's human rights acquis, is also a target for the opponents of the market economy. The article concludes with a discussion of current Polish politics in the aftermath of the October 2007 elections.