The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities
Published on 20. February 2025
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-350-44287-0 (ISBN)
Description
This edited volume explores how migrant identities are created and constructed in discourse both by migrants themselves and by others.
The contributors reveal how migrant identities are discursively constructed by those with lived experiences of mobility and those who view themselves as part of the 'host' population. This dual focus responds to a lack of previous research examining migration representation from both perspectives. Readers will discover how the discursive constructions of migrant identities in different domains relate to one another.
The case studies include a broad range of text types from film, government documents and narrative accounts to newspapers and Twitter. They also cover a wide range of contexts including Argentina, Australia, Italy, Romania, and UK, making this is a more comprehensive account of the framing of migration than has been previously accomplished. The chapters all follow the same structure to help the reader learn how to investigate migration discourses using qualitative and quantitative (critical) discourse analytic approaches.
The contributors reveal how migrant identities are discursively constructed by those with lived experiences of mobility and those who view themselves as part of the 'host' population. This dual focus responds to a lack of previous research examining migration representation from both perspectives. Readers will discover how the discursive constructions of migrant identities in different domains relate to one another.
The case studies include a broad range of text types from film, government documents and narrative accounts to newspapers and Twitter. They also cover a wide range of contexts including Argentina, Australia, Italy, Romania, and UK, making this is a more comprehensive account of the framing of migration than has been previously accomplished. The chapters all follow the same structure to help the reader learn how to investigate migration discourses using qualitative and quantitative (critical) discourse analytic approaches.
Reviews / Votes
This is a very timely and welcome collection of papers that breaks new ground in our understanding of various forms of public discourse on migration. Adopting a variety of modern critical discourse analytical approaches, the individual chapters, written by leading as well as rising scholars from diverse geographical backgrounds, weave together a rich tapestry of the complexity of migration representation in the authors' unique an original data sets. * Jan Chovanec, Masaryk University, Czech Republic *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
10 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-44287-0 (9781350442870)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Charlotte Taylor is Professor of Discourse and Persuasion at the University of Sussex, UK.
Simon Goodman is Associate Professor in Psychology at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
Stuart Dunmore is Associate Tutor at the Institute for Language Education at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Simon Goodman is Associate Professor in Psychology at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
Stuart Dunmore is Associate Tutor at the Institute for Language Education at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Content
List of Figures
1. Introduction, Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex, UK), Simon Goodman (De Montfort University, UK) and Stuart Dunmore (University of Edinburgh, UK)
2. Refugee Identities and Voices from within the Australian Carceral Regime, Arianna Grasso (University of Naples "L'Orientale", Italy)
3. EU Citizens as Migrants and the Search for Value in Post-Brexit UK, Pascual Perez-Paredes (Universidad de Murcia, Spain) and Elena Remigi (In Limbo Project, UK)
4. Metaphorical Self-Representations of Migration in Staron's Documentary "Argentinian Lesson", Agata Zelachowska (University of Salamanca, Spain)
5. Positive Perspectives on Migration Discourse in Early Twentieth-Century Italy, Dario del Fante (University of Ferrara, Italy)
6. The Representation of Migrants in the Romanian Press, Mihaela Iorga (University of Portsmouth, UK)
7. Silences, Absences and Mythopoetic Legitimation in UK Immigration Policy, Samuel Bennet (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
8. Refugees as Identity Fraudsters in European Media Reporting on the 'Refugee Crisis', Natalia Zawadzka-Paluektau (Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland)
9. Using Distributional Semantics to Study Discrepancies in the Framing of Migration Across Languages and Countries, Maud Reveilhac (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Gerold Schneider (University of Zurich, Austria) and Patricia Ronan (TU Dortmund, Germany)
10. Muslim Women as the 'Other' in German Political Cartoons, Emily E. Davis (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Index
1. Introduction, Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex, UK), Simon Goodman (De Montfort University, UK) and Stuart Dunmore (University of Edinburgh, UK)
2. Refugee Identities and Voices from within the Australian Carceral Regime, Arianna Grasso (University of Naples "L'Orientale", Italy)
3. EU Citizens as Migrants and the Search for Value in Post-Brexit UK, Pascual Perez-Paredes (Universidad de Murcia, Spain) and Elena Remigi (In Limbo Project, UK)
4. Metaphorical Self-Representations of Migration in Staron's Documentary "Argentinian Lesson", Agata Zelachowska (University of Salamanca, Spain)
5. Positive Perspectives on Migration Discourse in Early Twentieth-Century Italy, Dario del Fante (University of Ferrara, Italy)
6. The Representation of Migrants in the Romanian Press, Mihaela Iorga (University of Portsmouth, UK)
7. Silences, Absences and Mythopoetic Legitimation in UK Immigration Policy, Samuel Bennet (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
8. Refugees as Identity Fraudsters in European Media Reporting on the 'Refugee Crisis', Natalia Zawadzka-Paluektau (Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland)
9. Using Distributional Semantics to Study Discrepancies in the Framing of Migration Across Languages and Countries, Maud Reveilhac (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Gerold Schneider (University of Zurich, Austria) and Patricia Ronan (TU Dortmund, Germany)
10. Muslim Women as the 'Other' in German Political Cartoons, Emily E. Davis (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Index