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Schwab, Veit (2017) Discursive borders in EUrope. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This PhD thesis develops a critical account of discursive practices of bordering in the EUropean migration regime. By articulating recent advances from the fields of Critical Migration and Border Studies and Discourse Studies, it develops a theoretical and methodological framework that enables grasping discursive borders in their heterogeneity. On a broader level, it is interested in re-approaching post-structuralist and materialist strands of theory and analysis by going back to their beginnings in structural Marxism and psychoanalysis. EUrope’s discursive borders are scrutinised through the lens of different contexts that allow emphasising the entangled nature of policy, academic, and activist discourse. First, the present research scrutinises a set of practices of discursive bordering with a relatively high stability over time. Adopting a post-colonial, macro-historical perspective, it shows how EUrope’s colonial history infuses the conceptual apparatus of the EU’s contemporary migration policy. This serves as a foundation for the following chapters, that examine practices of discursive bordering from a micro-enunciative and a situated perspective. While the second analysis focuses on the construction and supraversion of the labour / refugee divide in German discourses on EUropean migration, the third shows how discursive borders are turned into a political stake in a migrant protest. This allows conceiving of categorisation and differentiation as discursive practices that are scattered in time and space, and characterised by resonances, contradictions, and subversions instead of following a common rationality or having a central point of reference.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Europe -- Boundaries, Europe -- Emigration and immigration, Discourse analysis -- Political aspects -- Europe, Border security -- Europe, Refugees -- Europe, Foreign workers -- Europe | ||||
Official Date: | December 2017 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Angermüller, Johannes, 1973- ; Squire, Vicki, 1974- | ||||
Sponsors: | University of Warwick. Chancellor's International Scholarship | ||||
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Extent: | iv, 292 leaves : illustrations, charts | ||||
Language: | eng |
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