By Bastian A. Vollmer (auth.)
Migration specialist Bastian Vollmer explores the contentious factor of abnormal migration within the highly-charged contexts of Germany and the united kingdom. via coverage and discourse research the writer explains why, regardless of the differing contexts and migration histories, German and British coverage responses to the difficulty are actually on a convergent path.
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In sum, the data source comes from a commonly associated historian turf, and the approach is a fusion of research methods that can be found predominantly in political science and linguistics. Comparing political discourses The comparative dimension was chosen under the premise as Foner (2005, p. 3) elegantly formulated it: ‘a comparative analysis can deepen our understanding of migration by raising new questions and research problems and help to evaluate, and in some cases modify, theoretical perspectives and formulate explanations that could not be made on the basis of one case – or one time period – alone of policy’.
Hajer and Laws, 2006). In relation to coalitions, frames offer a ‘focal point’ for the construction and maintenance of coalitions in complex and fragmented policy processes. Frames prove helpful to actors in aligning new policy initiatives with broader societal themes and values. In developing a deconstruction of policies for immigration control, and more specifically policies for irregular migration, two distinct bodies of literature will be drawn upon, which are two of the essential ‘building blocks’ of politics: actors and ideas (Heclo, 1993).
A substantial proportion of those migrants were refugees or internally displaced persons (IDPs) who suffered from ethnic or religious discrimination. At the time, the UK had rather a laissez-faire approach towards the migrant workforce for its postwar economic development. 24 Policy Discourses on Irregular Migration However, this attitude changed after the economic decline that the UK experienced in postwar decades (Coutts and Godley, 1989; Howe, 1994; Lewis and Townsend, 1989; Rubinstein, 1993).
