An example of restrictive ‘integration’ policy within Europe: analyzing ‘migrant’ membership frames through education policy discourse
(2014) European Educational Research Journal — Vol. 13, n° 4 (2014)
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- This paper proposes combining discourse theory (Fairclough, 2009) and perspectives on political membership developments in West-European societies (Benhabib, 2004). It combines theories and examples of policy discourses about ‘migrant integration’ in the Swiss national context in the sphere of education. This examination aims to deconstruct specific membership framing within Europe (Benhabib, 2004) and boundary setting between inclusion and exclusion of certain groups in policy sectors, such as education. Analyzing discourse through understandings within language enables to see the way categories and frames are constructed and contribute to the signifying of membership. Bounded problematizations, in this case about ‘migrants’, framed by political orientations and discourses, require policy ‘solutions’. Actors then make sense of this policy and interpret ‘solutions’ in distinctive ways. This paper aims at disclosing how membership practices in West-European countries such as Switzerland may remain restrictive because ‘migration’ is problematized
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Shaik, F. (2014). An example of restrictive ‘integration’ policy within Europe: analyzing ‘migrant’ membership frames through education policy discourse. European Educational Research Journal, 13(4). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/66234 (Original work published 2014)