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TY - JOUR
T1 - Dis-citizenship and migration
T2 - a critical discourse-analytical perspective
AU - Wodak, Ruth
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Inclusion and exclusion of migrants are renegotiated in the European Union on almost a daily scale: ever new policies defining and restricting immigration (usually from third world countries) are proposed by European member states. Thus, a return to ever more local policies and ideologies can be observed on many levels: traditions, rules, languages, visions, and imaginaries are affected. In this article, I suggest that we are currently experiencing a re/nationalisation in spite of (or perhaps because of) multiple globalising tendencies. Thus, citizenship and language tests are being or have already been introduced to all European nation states, thus emphasizing a revival of “the national language” as constitutive for access to employment, housing, or education and promising achievement of successful “integration.” In this way, migrants are perceived as having a “deficit” even if manifold tests provide evidence that native speakers (of German, for example) might also lack many language skills.
AB - Inclusion and exclusion of migrants are renegotiated in the European Union on almost a daily scale: ever new policies defining and restricting immigration (usually from third world countries) are proposed by European member states. Thus, a return to ever more local policies and ideologies can be observed on many levels: traditions, rules, languages, visions, and imaginaries are affected. In this article, I suggest that we are currently experiencing a re/nationalisation in spite of (or perhaps because of) multiple globalising tendencies. Thus, citizenship and language tests are being or have already been introduced to all European nation states, thus emphasizing a revival of “the national language” as constitutive for access to employment, housing, or education and promising achievement of successful “integration.” In this way, migrants are perceived as having a “deficit” even if manifold tests provide evidence that native speakers (of German, for example) might also lack many language skills.
KW - critical discourse studies
KW - citizenship and language tests
KW - naturalisation
KW - European Union
KW - Austria
KW - United Kingdom
KW - right wing populist rhetoric
KW - German language
KW - deficit and difference
KW - Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ)
KW - Austrian People's Party (ÖVP)
U2 - 10.1080/15348458.2013.797258
DO - 10.1080/15348458.2013.797258
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
SP - 173
EP - 178
JO - Journal of Language, Identity and Education
JF - Journal of Language, Identity and Education
SN - 1534-8458
IS - 3
ER -