Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse - Bennett, Samuel
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In this book, Samuel Bennett looks at the British national myths regarding the UK's relationship with other countries and its former colonies. He argues that the construction of these myths to legitimise Britain's self-image has racialized, silenced, and erased the migrant "Other"--and, by extension, British ethnic minorities. Drawing upon critical discourse studies and integrating decolonial and postcolonial theories, Bennett offers an in-depth, methodologically rigourous analysis of five central myths of UK immigration discourse. Further, he shows how the myths the UK tells itself are at…mehr

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In this book, Samuel Bennett looks at the British national myths regarding the UK's relationship with other countries and its former colonies. He argues that the construction of these myths to legitimise Britain's self-image has racialized, silenced, and erased the migrant "Other"--and, by extension, British ethnic minorities. Drawing upon critical discourse studies and integrating decolonial and postcolonial theories, Bennett offers an in-depth, methodologically rigourous analysis of five central myths of UK immigration discourse. Further, he shows how the myths the UK tells itself are at once stable, deployed in different contexts, and historically rooted.
Autorenporträt
Samuel Bennett is an Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. His research centres around discursive constructions of migrant integration, (non)belonging, exclusion, and legitimisation, with a focus on UK political actors. He is currently Chair of the CADAAD network and co-editor of Journal of Language & Politics. He is the author of Constructions of Migrant Integration in British Public Discourse (2018), along with several chapters in edited volumes and articles in respected journals, including Critical Discourse Studies and Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. Away from academia, he has been involved in immigration, community building, and empowerment charities for over twenty years, including as a research intern at the British Refugee Council, a refugee mentor, development education coordinator, and a board member of Migrant Info Point, an immigration charity in Poland.