Immigration, that’s what everyone’s thinking about
The 2016 British EU referendum seen in the eyes of the beholder
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6084992 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simona Guerra (0000-0003-3911-258X) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 651-670 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-28 |
| 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.19022.gue |
| OpenAlex | W2960448413 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article examines the 2016 British EU referendum and the domestic debates through citizens’ voices in the media, specifically on the emotions and narratives, on The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Express, the week before the referendum. British citizens felt, in their words, “bullied because of [their] political correctness” and pointed their anger and dissatisfaction against the EU (and Merkel’s) “obsession for open borders”. The analysis underlines that these emotions and narratives, combining immigration and sovereignty, have remained embedded in the post-Brexit days, and go back not just to Billig’s banal nationalism (1995), but show that voting Leave represented respect towards true British values, the “core country” as conceptualised by Taggart (2000). Powellism (Hampshire 2018) and Wright’s “encroanchment” of Englishness (2017), and the analysis on the immigration narrative explain how anti-immigration and sovereignty discourse is persisting and is influencing the social and political relation of Britain with Europe
Art · Brexit · Economics · European union · Immigration · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Referendum · Refugee · Sociology · Sovereignty · European Union Policy and Governance · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Gender Studies · Law
Uncivil Agreement
Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and the Eurosceptic Tradition in Britain
From Grexit to Grecovery
Anger and protest
The Measure of a Nation
May Contain Nuts’? The Reality behind the Rhetoric Surrounding the British Conservatives' New Group in the European Parliament
Converging towards Euroscepticism? Negativity in news coverage during the 2014 European Parliament elections in Germany and the UK
Arguments for European Disintegration
Introduction
Have we reached a tipping point? The mainstreaming of Euroscepticism in the UK
Globalization and the transformation of the national political space
A Touchstone of Dissent
The UK Independence Party and the Politics of Englishness
Images that Matter
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |