'The jobs all go to foreigners': a critical discourse analysis of the Labour Party's 'left-wing' case for immigration controls

This paper critically examines how senior figures in the UK Labour Party and wider labour movement discussed the topic of immigration in the immediate aftermath of the UK's vote to leave the European Union in 2016. Influenced by the Discourse Historical Approach, the paper is based on an analys...

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Published in:	Critical discourse studies Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 183 - 199
Main Author:	Bates, David
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Basingstoke Routledge 04.03.2023 Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects:	Advisors Brexit Corbyn Critical discourse analysis Critical theory Discourse analysis Discourses Foregrounding Immigration Labor movements Labor parties Labor unions Labour Party Left wing politics Legislatures Migrants Noncitizens Political discourse Populism Progressivism Racism Rhetoric Right wing politics Social classes Speeches Syntactic movement Working class United Kingdom > UK
ISSN:	1740-5904, 1740-5912
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