Recontextualizing and reconceptualizing EU institutional discourse on immigrant integration

This study aims to carry out an analysis of processes of ‘re-scaling’ of EU institutional discourse in the dissemination of knowledge on immigrant integration as “particular and diverse ways of representing aspects of the world”. Specifically, the analysis covers terms/notions related to immigration (e.g. assimilation, inclusion, multicultural/intercultural integration), also with a view to investigating linguistic and conceptual vagueness in EU institutional legal discourse as a marker of ideology which mediates migrants’ needs and local needs in the host country. AREA: Justice, freedom and security TIME SPAN: 2008-2013 Corpus: EU Directives (2008-2013); Strengthening the Global Approach to Migration: increasing coordination, coherence and synergies (2008); European Agenda for the Integration of Non-EU Migrants (2011); EU initiatives supporting the integration of third-country nationals (2011)