Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-774721-6 (ISBN)
In Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse, Samuel Bennett looks at British national myths about immigration and the country's colonial history.
Combining Critical Discourse Studies with decolonial and postcolonial theories, Bennett offers an in-depth, methodologically rigorous analysis of a wide range of material to show how current immigration discourses are inextricably tied to the past. The book identifies four key myths: euphemization of the Commonwealth (and erasure of Britain's colonial history); immigration as both enrichment and threat; Britain offering a safe haven for those in need; and a teleological story of "British values." Intentionally moving backwards and forwards between past and the present, and across genres, Bennett shows how the myths the UK tells itself are at once stable, deployed in different contexts, and historically rooted.
Ultimately, this book argues that through these myths the migrant "Other"--and, by extension, British ethnic minorities--have been silenced and erased from the country's story which legitimises a racialised immigration policy.
Samuel Bennett is an Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. His research centres around discursive constructions of migrant integration, (non)belonging, exclusion, and legitimisation, with a focus on UK political actors. He is currently Chair of the CADAAD network and co-editor of Journal of Language & Politics. He is the author of Constructions of Migrant Integration in British Public Discourse (2018), along with several chapters in edited volumes and articles in respected journals, including Critical Discourse Studies and Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. Away from academia, he has been involved in immigration, community building, and empowerment charities for over twenty years, including as a research intern at the British Refugee Council, a refugee mentor, development education coordinator, and a board member of Migrant Info Point, an immigration charity in Poland.
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: British Exceptionalism: Purifying History in Election Manifestos
Chapter 3: Colonial Forgettings: The Historical Subject and the Erasure of Effect
Chapter 4: Britain in Danger: Citizenship as (White) Privilege
Chapter 5: The Necropolitics of Asylum Policy
Chapter 6: Myths, Absences, and Emergences: The Case of British Values
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Towards a Linguistic Sociology of Absences
Appendix A: List of textbooks analysed in Chapter 3
Appendix B: List of articles cited in Chapter 4
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.01.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 224 mm |
| Gewicht | 499 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-774721-3 / 0197747213 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-774721-6 / 9780197747216 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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