Publication details
Immigration in Current Political Discourse
| Authors | |
|---|---|
| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Politické vedy |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | political discourse discursive analysis immigrat ion nationalism |
| Description | The article introduces the discursive analysis as a fruitful method within the study of social and political processes. Using the example of current situation in the area of international migration we try to show how this method can provide the critical questioning of certain premises taking for granted in current political an d academic discourse. In the first part we describe the concept of discourse and the method of discursive analysis in general, and later we try to find the historical roots of the current political discourses about migration that dominated the political and public sphere in the second half of the 20th century. At the same time we try to outline certain significant changes the political discourse referring to migration has passed through these decades. Several remarks a re made in the conclusion comparing the situation in the Western Europe and in our social context |