Immigration Discourses in an Age of Globalisation

Abstract

Due to increases in migration flows, ‘Americanisation’ of culture and a globalised labour market, new insecurities have been created for Europeans that can explain worries about and tougher policies on immigration. This panel will address the immigration discourses in Europe that have, in the wake of globalisation, been framed around conceptions of culture and identity, as well as the protection of economic national interests. The papers bring together a number of fields that wish to explain the effects and nature of citizenship and migration discourses in a world of seemingly increasing movement, which has nevertheless witnessed a relapse to nationalist rhetoric and reinforced border controls. The panel seeks to give accounts for this development that do not regard it as a natural consequence of globalisation, but as a result of how immigration discourses are framed around issues of culture, identity, gender and security. In addition, this panel links such discourses to the parliamentary gains and the influences of the European anti-immigration far right. The papers include empirical examples of the debates over forced marriage in France and Britain, the discourse around the UK citizenship, the British, French and Swedish immigration debates and the Swedish and Dutch experiences with anti-immigration extreme right parties. They raise issues of gender relations, security concerns, nationalism and voting behaviour. Together, they address wider theoretical issues of the role of institutions, liberal governance, attitudes to immigration and the successes of the extreme right.

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