The Discourses and Politics of Migration in Europe

1. Front Matter

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2. Immigration and Integration Policies: Assumptions and Explanations

   1. Immigration and Integration Policies: Assumptions and Explanations

      • Umut Korkut, Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Aidan McGarry

      Pages 1-14

3. Construction of the Foreigner

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Whose Interests Do Radical Right Parties Really Represent? The Migration Policy Agenda of the Swiss People’s Party between Nativism and Neoliberalism

      • Alexandre Afonso

      Pages 17-35

   3. Domestic Work, Gender, and Migration in Turkey: Legal Framework Enabling Social Reality

      • Hande Eslen-Ziya, Umut Korkut

      Pages 37-52

   4. Struggling with EU Safe Country Practices in Asylum

      • Sarah Craig

      Pages 53-70

4. Host Nations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. The Politicization of Roma as an Ethnic “Other”: Security Discourse in France and the Politics of Belonging

      • Aidan McGarry, Helen Drake

      Pages 73-91

   3. “Good” and “Bad” Immigrants: The Economic Nationalism of the True Finns’ Immigration Discourse

      • Mikko Kuisma

      Pages 93-108

   4. “A Two-Way Process of Accommodation”: Public Perceptions of Integration along the Migration-Mobility Continuum

      • Kesi Mahendran

      Pages 109-131

5. Law and Order

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. Asylum Policy Responsiveness in Scandinavia

      • Frøy Gudbrandsen

      Pages 135-150

   3. The Multilevel Governance of Migrant Integration: A Multilevel Governance Perspective on Dutch Migrant Integration Policies

      • Peter Scholten

      Pages 151-169

   4. Ideology and Entry Policy: Why Center-Right Parties in Sweden Support Open-Door Migration Policies

      • Andrea Spehar, Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Jonas Hinnfors

      Pages 171-190

6. The Discourses and Politics of Migration: Policy, Methodology, and Theory

   1. The Discourses and Politics of Migration: Policy, Methodology, and Theory

      • Umut Korkut, Jonas Hinnfors, Helen Drake

      Pages 191-198

7. Back Matter

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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.

• Asylum
• belonging
• European Union (EU)
• gender
• immigration
• Integration
• migration
• migration policy
• mobility
• Multi-Level Governance
• nationalism
• neoliberalism
• Policy
• politics
• Roma
• european union politics

'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

Kesi Mahendran, Open University, UK

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