Policy Discourses on Irregular Migration in Germany and the United Kingdom
Migration expert Bastian Vollmer explores the contentious issue of irregular migration in the highly-charged contexts of Germany and the UK. Through policy and discourse analysis the author explains why, despite the differing contexts and migration histories, German and British policy responses to the issue are now on a convergent path.
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Policy Discourses on Irregular Migration in Germany and the United Kingdom
Migration expert Bastian Vollmer explores the contentious issue of irregular migration in the highly-charged contexts of Germany and the UK. Through policy and discourse analysis the author explains why, despite the differing contexts and migration histories, German and British policy responses to the issue are now on a convergent path.
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Policy Discourses on Irregular Migration in Germany and the United Kingdom

Policy Discourses on Irregular Migration in Germany and the United Kingdom

by B. Vollmer
Policy Discourses on Irregular Migration in Germany and the United Kingdom

Policy Discourses on Irregular Migration in Germany and the United Kingdom

by B. Vollmer

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Overview

Migration expert Bastian Vollmer explores the contentious issue of irregular migration in the highly-charged contexts of Germany and the UK. Through policy and discourse analysis the author explains why, despite the differing contexts and migration histories, German and British policy responses to the issue are now on a convergent path.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349455560
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 01/01/2014
Series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies
Edition description: 1st ed. 2014
Pages: 305
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bastian A. Vollmer is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Policy Discourses, Frames, Methods 3. United Kingdom 4. Germany 5. Comparative Meta-frames 6. Concluding Remarks

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"This book answers challenging questions. In a comparative manner, Bastian Vollmer uncovers the history of policy-making in the policy area of migration control in Germany and the UK, but also provides in-depth explanations for it. In a remarkably detailed and analytically sharp way, he has done an enormous service to academics, policy-makers and the informed public." Werner Schiffauer, Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences, Euroepan University Viadrina, Germany

"This is a timely and critical analysis of how policies on irregular migration control have evolved in the past 40 years in two important immigration countries notably Germany and Britain. This book shows how asylum panics and perceptions of (irregular) migration threats have become not only dominant but also normalised in Europe." Anna Triandafyllidou, Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Italy

"Vollmer shows how the creation of the notion of 'irregular migration' is primarily the result of increasingly restrictive migration legislation since the 1970s. His case studies of Germany and the UK examine how ideas on migration have been shaped by emotive discourses on perceived threats to national interests. This original study goes across the frontiers of political science, linguistics and sociology, and should be read by anyone who wants to understand why hostility to migration has become such a potent political force." Stephen Castles, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia

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