The Discourses and Politics of Migration in Europe (Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series)

This book is a comprehensive study of migration politics in ten European countries, tracing how language, discourse, and political parties matter to migration policymaking. 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 Front Matter....Pages i-xv Immigration and Integration Policies: Assumptions and Explanations....Pages 1-14 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 Whose Interests Do Radical Right Parties Really Represent? The Migration Policy Agenda of the Swiss People’s Party between Nativism and Neoliberalism....Pages 17-35 Domestic Work, Gender, and Migration in Turkey: Legal Framework Enabling Social Reality....Pages 37-52 Struggling with EU Safe Country Practices in Asylum....Pages 53-70 Front Matter....Pages 71-71 The Politicization of Roma as an Ethnic “Other”: Security Discourse in France and the Politics of Belonging....Pages 73-91 “Good” and “Bad” Immigrants: The Economic Nationalism of the True Finns’ Immigration Discourse....Pages 93-108 “A Two-Way Process of Accommodation”: Public Perceptions of Integration along the Migration-Mobility Continuum....Pages 109-131 Front Matter....Pages 133-133 Asylum Policy Responsiveness in Scandinavia....Pages 135-150 The Multilevel Governance of Migrant Integration: A Multilevel Governance Perspective on Dutch Migrant Integration Policies....Pages 151-169 Ideology and Entry Policy: Why Center-Right Parties in Sweden Support Open-Door Migration Policies....Pages 171-190 The Discourses and Politics of Migration: Policy, Methodology, and Theory....Pages 191-198 Back Matter....Pages 199-236 "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"-- Provided by publisher