The representation of migrant identities in UK Government documents about Brexit
A corpus-assisted analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6084262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tamsin Parnell (0000-0001-7151-9510) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 46-65 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/jlp.22091.par |
| OpenAlex | W4308885071 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 42 |
In the English worldview, “not all immigrants are created equal” (Henderson and Wyn Jones 2021: 91). This paper provides support for the above statement by employing key semantic domain analysis (Rayson 2008) and CDA to answer the research question: How are EU and extra-EU migrants constructed in Brexit-related UK Government documents published between 2016 and 2019? The analysis demonstrates that extra-EU migrants are constructed as a threat that requires UK-EU unity. At the same time, the government’s grammatical and linguistic strategies discursively exclude EU migrants from the British public. The study argues that a neoliberal construction of the acceptable EU migrant erases the identities of migrant workers in so-called “unskilled” roles and foreshadows the social exclusion of these groups brought about by the UK’s post-Brexit immigration system. The paper concludes that the documents problematise Britain’s “tolerant nation” rhetoric and threaten to weaken feelings of belonging to the UK among migrants
Brexit · Economics · European union · Government (linguistics · Immigration · Linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Referendum · Representation (politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Gender Studies · Law · Public Administration
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| Highly cited | No |