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Security or insecurity? Representations of the UK border in public and policy discourses

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  • Bastian A. Vollmer

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This article analyses representations of the UK border (in relation to migration) in UK public and policy discourses. It uses methods from corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to compare the two discursive domains. A 26 million-word corpus of policy documentation and British newspaper articles published between 2007 and 2014 is examined using the analysis tool Sketch Engine and applying qualitative concordance analysis. The analysis reveals a key difference between the two domains: while the UK border is represented as a security concept in the policy corpus, the corpus of the public newspaper domain frequently and saliently represents the UK border as a concept dominated by insecurity. The article argues that the discursive label of European Union has played a role in contributing to this difference.

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  • Bastian A. Vollmer, 2017. "Security or insecurity? Representations of the UK border in public and policy discourses," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(3), pages 295-310, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:12:y:2017:i:3:p:295-310
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1278970
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