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- Title
Ethics, Politics and Migration: Public Debates on the Free Movement of Romanians and Bulgarians in the UK, 2006-2013.
- Authors
Balch, Alex; Balabanova, Ekaterina
- Abstract
Public debates on immigration have become the subject of much concern, particularly in the UK. This article applies an ethical lens to assess changes in public debates over intra-EU migration in six UK national newspapers during 2006 and 2013. It finds an almost complete dominance of communitarian justifications, mainly based on welfare chauvinism, but a notable increase in security-related arguments and a decrease in economic nationalist ideas. Alternative cosmopolitan arguments about immigration go from rare to virtually absent. The discussion links these shifts to a failure of the UK centre-left to overcome historic difficulties in presenting a coherent narrative on immigration policy.
- Subjects
EMIGRATION &; immigration; SOCIAL conditions in Great Britain; ETHICS; DEBATE; CHAUVINISM &; jingoism; NATIONALISM &; economics
- Publication
Politics, 2016, Vol 36, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
0263-3957
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9256.12082