29.539, Books: Constructions of Migrant Integration in British Public Discourse: Bennett

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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 11:45:32
From: Lianna Iwanikiw [lianna.iwanikiw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Constructions of Migrant Integration in British Public Discourse: Bennett

Title: Constructions of Migrant Integration in British Public Discourse 
Subtitle: Becoming British 
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/constructions-of-migrant-integration-in-british-public-discourse-9781350029200/ 

Author: Sam Bennett

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350029224 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 94.99 Comment: ePUB
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350029217 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 94.99 Comment: ePDF
Hardback: ISBN:  9781350029200 Pages: 248 Price: U.K. £ 95.00

Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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