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Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities

Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities

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Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies

Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities

Charlotte Taylor | David Machin | Simon Goodman | John E. Richardson | Stuart Dunmore | Michal Krzyzanowski

Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General

This edited volume explores how migrant identities are created and constructed in discourse both by migrants themselves and by others.

The contributors reveal how migrant identities are discursively constructed by those with lived experiences of mobility and those who view themselves as part of the 'host' population. This dual focus responds to a lack of previous research examining migration representation from both perspectives. Readers will discover how the discursive constructions of migrant identities in different domains relate to one another.

The case studies include a broad range of text types from film, government documents and narrative accounts to newspapers and Twitter. They also cover a wide range of contexts including Argentina, Australia, Italy, Romania, and UK, making this is a more comprehensive account of the framing of migration than has been previously accomplished. The chapters all follow the same structure to help the reader learn how to investigate migration discourses using qualitative and quantitative (critical) discourse analytic approaches.

Charlotte Taylor is Professor of Discourse and Persuasion at the University of Sussex, UK.

Simon Goodman is Associate Professor in Psychology at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

Stuart Dunmore is Associate Tutor at the Institute for Language Education at the University of Edinburgh, UK.


Publication Date: 20 August 2026
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-13: 9781350442917
Format: Paperback softback
Page Count: 256
Weight (oz): 12.64

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