Kristina Boreus

Migrants and Natives - 'Them' and 'Us'

Mainstream and Radical Right Political Rhetoric in Europe

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In light of the recent global resurgence of radical and populist right-wing parties, this book examines hostile and anti-immigration rhetoric in Europe. Topical and timely, it deftly guides the reader through the trajectories of radical right parties and contextualises discriminatory rhetoric in wider immigration and integration politics.

Grounded in a focussed, comparative critical discourse study that draws on methods from social science and linguistics, the book:
Presents a study of political rhetoric on migration in several European countries over the past thirty-five years, drawing out similarities and differences. Explores anti-immigration rhetoric before and after the 2015 refugee/solidarity crisis. Illuminates the role of so-called mainstream parties in developing and legitimising discriminatory rhetoric.
Exposing the insidious nature of malevolent political rhetoric and its consequences, this book is a timely and essential read.

Produktdetails

• SAGE Swifts
• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd / Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 285g
• ISBN-13: 9781526475039
• ISBN-10: 1526475030
• Artikelnr.: 59276328

Autorenporträt

Kristina Boréus is Professor of Political Science at Uppsala University, Sweden. She has studied ideology and ideological change, discrimination against migrants and racialized employees at Swedish workplaces, and right-wing populism in Austria, Denmark, and Sweden. Her publications in English include 'Patterned Inequalities and the Inequality Regime of a Swedish Housing Company' (with Ulf Mörkenstam, 2015, in Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies); 'Nationalism and Discursive Discrimination against Immigrants in Austria, Denmark and Sweden' (2013, in Wodak, R., KhosraviNik, M. & Mral, B. (eds) Right-Wing Populism in Europe, Bloomsbury Academic) and 'Discursive Discrimination: A Typology' (2006, in European Journal of Social Theory). She takes an interest in different kinds of textual analysis as method and theory and has published Textens mening och makt (with Göran Bergström, Studentlitteratur), a Swedish textbook that appeared in its third edition in 2012.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Making natives 'us' and migrants 'them' in European politics
Why political rhetoric matters
Why current rhetoric on migration and migrants is a concern
Chapter 1: Anti-immigration and anti-migrant rhetoric as part of politics
Aims of the book
Contributions
The rise of radical right parties in Western Europe
The corpora
On methods
Chapter 2: Who should be let in?
Four perspectives on immigration policy
Labour migrants - threats or assets?
Refugees - threats, rights-holders or objects of charity?
Chapter 3: How should we live together?
Two perspectives on integration
Natives as 'us' and migrants as 'them'
New inhabitants - rights-holders to what extent?
Chapter 4: Accumulating poison?
Rhetorical change since the 1980s in Austria, Denmark and Sweden
The refugee/solidarity crisis
Migration rhetoric before and after the crisis
Discrimination - fought or forgotten?
Chapter 5: Conclusions
Summary of the findings: cause for concern
Influence by the radical right parties?
Epilogue

Rezensionen

A key contribution to understanding migration discourses of radical right and racist parties across Europe. This detailed analysis further points out a frightening development: the normalization of right-wing populist and racist discourses among mainstream parties. As such, it is a crucial book for scholars and students of political science, discourse studies and social sciences in general. Edma Ajanovic