Book contents
- Immigration, Security, and the Liberal State
- Immigration, Security, and the Liberal State
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Framing and Reframing Immigration
- 3 Expanding the Migration Policy Playing Field
- 4 Popular Attitudes towards Immigration Regulation
- 5 Immigration and the Politics of Threat
- 6 Securitizing and Politicizing Immigration
- 7 Conclusions
- References
- Index
2 - Framing and Reframing Immigration
The Politics of (In)Security
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 February 2024
- Immigration, Security, and the Liberal State
- Immigration, Security, and the Liberal State
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Framing and Reframing Immigration
- 3 Expanding the Migration Policy Playing Field
- 4 Popular Attitudes towards Immigration Regulation
- 5 Immigration and the Politics of Threat
- 6 Securitizing and Politicizing Immigration
- 7 Conclusions
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 2 situates the migration trilemma within a dynamic, securitarian framework. Informed by evidence gathered from cross-national public opinion surveys, media content analyses, an experiment, and original surveys of Members of the European Parliament, it evaluates the ways in which frames have influenced the course of the politics of immigration and the content of immigration policy in post-WWII Europe and the US. It underscores the considerable influence media and political elite frames have on popular attitudes regarding immigration and, indirectly, immigration and human mobility policies. The chapter’s main insight is that the way immigration is primarily framed largely determines whether the subject is salient, and when so, how it influences human mobility considerations. Its central argument is that as the public safety and national security dimensions of immigration have become more salient, liberal states have adopted more expansive and restrictive policies.
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- Immigration, Security, and the Liberal StateThe Politics of Migration Regulation in Europe and the United States, pp. 30 - 93Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024