Constructions of Migrant Integration in British Public DiscourseBecoming British

Bibliographic Data

ID19907249
AuthorsSam Bennett (0009-0007-8145-0028, corresponding author)
Year2018
Publication date2018-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueConstructions of Migrant Integration in British Public DiscourseBecoming British (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBloomsbury Academic (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781350029231
OpenAlexW3125500496
Open LibraryOL27844566M
ISBN9781350029231
LanguageEN
Citations received17

"This is a study into how the public discourse on migrant integration in the UK changed from 2000-2010. The book shows that the discursive construction of integration in the British public sphere shifted from one of cultural pluralism to one of neo-assimilation, informed by a wider spread of neo-liberalism that necessitates self-sufficiency and discourages state assistance. Situated within the Critical Discourse Studies tradition, the book employs a Discourse Historical approach to the data and includes innovative analysis combining 'top-down' (policy documents and media texts) and 'bottom-up' (focus groups with migrants and new citizens) sites of discourse production. In doing so, it provides a broad and detailed perspective of public discourse on integration in the UK. The book shows that understandings of 'integration' are diachronically and synchronically fluid and as such, the term plays an important role as a 'consensus concept' that different actors can support whilst construing it in different ways. Analysis of the data further reveals that integration is interdiscursively linked to other social fields, such as the economy, terrorism and public spending. The book also argues that integration policy has become directed not just at new migrants, but also long-term British citizens and that this has the potential to have considerable impact on community cohesion."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Cohesion (chemistry) · Community cohesion · Cultural assimilation · Economics · Economy · Immigration · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public discourse · Public sphere · Situated · Sociology · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Citizenship · Communication in politics · Critical discourse analysis · Discourse analysis · emigration and immigration · Government policy · Great britain · Immigrants · Naturalization · Public opinion · race relations · Social integration

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