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This volume identifies language, discourse, and political parties as the three main causes of recent developments in European migration politics. It underlines the role of political parties as key societal actors, the multiple institutional levels on which migration policymaking plays itself out, and how political ideas and societal discourse, economic interests and public attitudes figure prominently in shaping the adoption, implementation, and public perception of immigration and integration policy measures. Methodologically, the authors make use of process tracing, public opinion data analysis, focus group and interviews, discourse analysis and historical case studies. The geographic range of cases includes France, the UK, Turkey, Switzerland, Poland, the Netherlands and several of the Nordic states. Empirically, the coverage includes studies of the implementation of municipal-level integration measures, the role of discourse by governments seeking to exclude whole categories of migrants from the demos, the public perception of mobility and migration status within the EU, and the comparative analysis of the implementation of EU Asylum Directives in various member states.
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'The manuscript contributes to a very timely public and scholarly debate on the issue of immigration in Europe. It is composed of theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich chapters that are unified on their focus on the issue of immigration politics in Europe and their analytical focus on discourse, language and political parties. …This is an outstanding addition to the literature on immigration issues.' - Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Professor, Political Science, Miami University
Synopsis
This volume identifies language, discourse, and political parties as the three main causes of recent developments in European migration politics. It underlines the role of political parties as key societal actors, the multiple institutional levels on which migration policymaking plays itself out, and how political ideas and societal discourse, economic interests and public attitudes figure prominently in shaping the adoption, implementation, and public perception of immigration and integration policy measures. Methodologically, the authors make use of process tracing, public opinion data analysis, focus group and interviews, discourse analysis and historical case studies. The geographic range of cases includes France, the UK, Turkey, Switzerland, Poland, the Netherlands and several of the Nordic states. Empirically, the coverage includes studies of the implementation of municipal-level integration measures, the role of discourse by governments seeking to exclude whole categories of migrants from the demos, the public perception of mobility and migration status within the EU, and the comparative analysis of the implementation of EU Asylum Directives in various member states.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Umut Korkut is a Lecturer in Economic Studies and International Business at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland.
Gregg Bucken-Knapp is an associate professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Aidan McGarry is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Brighton, UK.
Jonas Hinnfors is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Helen Drake is a Professor of French and European Studies in the Department of Politics, History and International Relations at Loughborough University, UK.
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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; Frøy 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