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Imigrácia v súčasnom politickom diskurze
Immigration in Current Political Discourse

Author(s): Jarmila Androvičová
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Univerzita Mateja Bela
Keywords: political discourse; discursive analysis; immigration; nationalism

Summary/Abstract: 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 and 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 are made in the conclusion comparing the situation in the Western Europe and in our social context.

  • Issue Year: 13/2010
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 69-88
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: English