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.

A key contribution to understanding migration discourses of radical right and racist parties across Europe. This detailed analysis further points out a frightening development: the normalization of right-wing populist and racist discourses among mainstream parties. As such, it is a crucial book for scholars and students of political science, discourse studies and social sciences in general.

• Introduction: Making natives ′us′ and migrants ′them′ in European politicsWhy political rhetoric mattersWhy current rhetoric on migration and migrants is a concernChapter 1: Anti-immigration and anti-migrant rhetoric as part of politicsAims of the bookContributionsThe rise of radical right parties in Western EuropeThe corporaOn methodsChapter 2: Who should be let in?Four perspectives on immigration policyLabour migrants - threats or assets?Refugees - threats, rights-holders or objects of charity?Chapter 3: How should we live together?Two perspectives on integrationNatives 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 SwedenThe refugee/solidarity crisisMigration rhetoric before and after the crisisDiscrimination - fought or forgotten?Chapter 5: ConclusionsSummary of the findings: cause for concernInfluence by the radical right parties?Epilogue