Narratives of Immigration in the EU - Migrants in the Romanian and British Press

This book examines the representation of migrants and the European Union (EU) in the Romanian and British press, adopting a Critical Discourse Analysis approach to analyse a corpus of newspaper articles published between 1^st January 2006 and 31^st December 2018. The analysis reveals that through conceptual metaphors, migrants were likened to objects, ships, illegal goods, waves, flows, liquids, invaders, enemies and threats. The key themes identified in the analysis are the quantification and the otherisation of migrants, as well as their portrayal as economic burdens or invaders in their destination countries. With regard to the EU, the author explores how both countries memberships have followed different trajectories than those of other member states, ever since their accession to the EU bloc. The novelty of this research lies in the diachronic comparison of the representations of migrants and the European Union in Romania, a country characterised by emigration, versus the United Kingdom, a country characterised by immigration. This volume will be of interest to academics and students concerned with issues to do with migration and the EU, including those in fields such as political communication, migration policy, sociology of migration, and the language of media.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Socio-Political Contextual Background.- Chapter 3. Metaphors of migration in the Romanian and the British press.- Chapter 4. Diachronic Changes in Migrant and EU Representations.- Chapter 5. Comparing Migrant and EU Conceptualisations in the Romanian versus the British Press Landscape.- Chapter 6. Conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Mihaela Iorga
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 29.07.2025
• EAN: 9783031895050
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3189505-0
• No. of pages: 190
• Illustrations: X, 190 p. 60 illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Soziologie, Öffentliche Verwaltung, Kommunikationswissenschaft, Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung, Politische Strukturen und Prozesse, Bevölkerung und Migrationsgeographie, Migration Policy, Research Methods in Language and Linguistics, Political Communication, Sociology of Migration, Corpus Linguistics, Human Migration, Media Discourse, critical discourse analysis, Political Discourse, Brexit referendum, Conceptual Metaphor analysis