Migrants and Natives - ′Them′ and ′Us′

Kristina Boréus is Professor of Political Science at Uppsala University, Sweden. She has studied ideology and ideological change, discrimination against migrants and racialized employees at Swedish workplaces, and right-wing populism in Austria, Denmark, and Sweden. Her publications in English include ‘Patterned Inequalities and the Inequality Regime of a Swedish Housing Company’ (with Ulf Mörkenstam, 2015, in Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies); ‘Nationalism and Discursive Discrimination against Immigrants in Austria, Denmark and Sweden’ (2013, in Wodak, R., KhosraviNik, M. & Mral, B. (eds) Right-Wing Populism in Europe, Bloomsbury Academic) and ‘Discursive Discrimination: A Typology’ (2006, in European Journal of Social Theory). She takes an interest in different kinds of textual analysis as method and theory and has published Textens mening och makt (with Göran Bergström, Studentlitteratur), a Swedish textbook that appeared in its third edition in 2012.

Introduction: Making natives ′us′ and migrants ′them′ in European politics
Why political rhetoric matters
Why current rhetoric on migration and migrants is a concern
Chapter 1: Anti-immigration and anti-migrant rhetoric as part of politics
Aims of the book
Contributions
The rise of radical right parties in Western Europe
The corpora
On methods
Chapter 2: Who should be let in?
Four perspectives on immigration policy
Labour migrants - threats or assets?
Refugees - threats, rights-holders or objects of charity?
Chapter 3: How should we live together?
Two perspectives on integration
Natives as ′us′ and migrants as ′them′
New inhabitants - rights-holders to what extent?
Chapter 4: Accumulating poison?
Rhetorical change since the 1980s in Austria, Denmark and Sweden
The refugee/solidarity crisis
Migration rhetoric before and after the crisis
Discrimination - fought or forgotten?
Chapter 5: Conclusions
Summary of the findings: cause for concern
Influence by the radical right parties?
Epilogue