Konceptualizace, politizace a imigrační politika
Conceptualization, Politicization and Immigration Policy

Summary/Abstract: The primary objective of this article is an accentuation of the only seemingly natural conceptualization of immigration policy, especially in the context of an intensive politicization of immigration in the 1980s in Western European countries. The author employs a cognitive linguistic approach of conceptualization, which perceives a phenomenon, in this case immigration, not only by its definition or description but as a socially and culturally conditioned construction. The absence of a relevant public discussion of the immigration issue, and the resultant imprisonment of the society in traditional conceptualization schemas and metaphors leads in causal relationship with nature of modern western societies to functionless immigration policy. Analysis of (im)migration metaphors, their causes and consequences, contributes to the cognition that generally prevailing and deeply established anti-immigration attitudes of majority society are not natural but contextualized by the institutional framework of national liberal state, whose principles are today ever more confronted by growing globalization processes.

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