1st Edition

Critical Discourse and Sociolinguistic Approaches to Migration and Freedom of Movement Unbound Horizons

Edited By Katie J. Patterson Copyright 2027
340 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume explores how linguistic narratives of migration, citizenship, and freedom of movement expose the tensions between legal frameworks and lived experiences. This book provides a dynamic exploration of alternative migration narratives across the EU, promoting awareness of freedom of movement, European values, and citizenship rights. It brings together personal stories and innovative... Read more

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

 

1.     Reframing Mobility: Discourse, Narratives and Freedom of Movement in Contemporary Europe and Beyond - Katie J. Patterson, Pascual Pérez-Paredes

Part I - Migration in the Public Sphere: Narratives, Representations and Ideologies

2.     The Gaze of the Other: Xenophobic Discourse on Migrants’ Identity on the Social Network X - Francisco José Sánchez García

3.     Migration in the Post-Brexit UK: A Critical Discourse Analysis of British Tabloids’ Facebook Comment Sections - Maria Cristina Nisco & Annalisa Raffone

4.     Discursive perspectives from the Global South: the representation of immigrants and emigrants in Nigerian newspaper discourse - Dario Del Fante

5.     How many Europes? Investigating discourses of Europeanness through corpus-assisted methodologies - Arianna Grasso

 

Part II – Migration and Freedom of Movement: Introducing the FOM@PLAY project

 

6.     FOM@PLAY: a platform for the distribution of multilingual corpora, discourse analysis and social justice - Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Antonio Carrión-González & Patricio Santiago-Illán

7.     EU Freedom of Movement, Bordering and Membership: A Framework for the Analysis of EU Mobility Discourse - Katherine E. Russo

 

Part III - The FOM@PLAY project: Migrant Voices and Narratives

8.     Talk about people: Others, otherness and decentring in mobility narratives - Maï Leray & Henry Tyne

9.     Identities and Emotions on the Move: Exploring the Past and the Present in EU Migrant Narratives - Arianna del Gaudio

10.  Constructing mobility-mediated identities: Romanian citizens in Spain - Pablo Muñiz-Cegarra, Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Pilar Aguado-Jiménez

11.  Getting to the heart of migration stories: Exploring individual paths in narratives of mobility - Maï Leray

12.  Constructing identities in the EU: a corpus-assisted analysis of the narratives of German and Italian citizens living in Spain - María José Marín-Pérez, Pascual Pérez-Paredes & Pilar Aguado-Jiménez

13.  Agency and affordances in student mobility narratives: Evidence from the FOM@Play corpus - Henry Tyne

14.  Beyond Borders: Gender Perspectives on Freedom of Movement - Anna Mongibello

 

Part IV – From Discourse to Practice: Pedagogy, Media Literacy and Social Impact

15.  Migration, Media Literacy and Fake News Awareness Among Spanish Secondary School Students on Social Media - Borja Manzano Vázquez, Sergio Castro-Cortacero & Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio

16.  Teaching-learning materials for educating university students in European values: The case of the FOM@Play Project - Miguel-Ángel Benítez-Castro, Esther Edo-Agustín, Jennifer Moreno, Ana-Cristina Vivas-Peraza, Teresa Barea-García, María-José Luzón-Marco & Purificación Pérez-García

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Biography

Katie J. Patterson is a Lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Granada. Her research focuses on metaphor, lexical priming, psycholinguistics and critical discourse analysis, with particular interests in extremist discourse, disinformation, populism and migration narratives.