The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities

"This edited volume explores how migrant identities are created and constructed in discourse both by migrants themselves and by others. It reveals how migrant identities are discursively constructed by those with lived experiences of mobility and those who view themselves as part of the 'host' population. Including case-studies covering a broad range of text types (film, government documents, narrative accounts, newspapers, Twitter) and a wide range of contexts (Argentina, Australia, Italy, Romania, UK, USA), this comprehensive account helps readers investigate migration discourses using qualitative and quantitative (critical) discourse analytic approaches"--