The Future of Multiculturalism in Western Europe : The Influence of the European Migrant Crisis on the Public Discourse on Integration and Assimilation

• Main Author: Schellekens, Fleur
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen 2020
• Subjects: multiculturalism; integration; assimilation; public discourse; European migrant crisis; refugees; Social Sciences; Samhällsvetenskap
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-416950

The aim of this study was to identify the possible changes in the public discourse in Western Europe on multiculturalism, integration and assimilation after the European migrant crisis started in 2015. This study has been conducted by combining corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to analyze newspaper articles of newspapers in the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden in 2010, 2015 and 2019. The results show that there is indeed a shift visible from an integration approach towards an assimilation approach. This shift is however not visible in the words being used, but rather in the approach that the word integration is being used to refer to.