Social citizenship and immigration: Employment, welfare, and effortfulness in online discourse concerning migration to the United Kingdom.

Gibson, Stephen; Crossland, Matthew; Hamilton, J. F.

doi:10.1037/qup0000078

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“…Gibson, Crossland, and Hamilton (2017) demonstrated how arguments about "social citizenship" were used to argue against allowing EU migration into the UK, here with categories such as "East European" and "immigrants" being presented as particularly likely to claim welfare benefits and therefore to be a financial burden on the UK. Gibson, Crossland, and Hamilton (2017) demonstrated how arguments about "social citizenship" were used to argue against allowing EU migration into the UK, here with categories such as "East European" and "immigrants" being presented as particularly likely to claim welfare benefits and therefore to be a financial burden on the UK.…”

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“…Gibson and colleagues have focused specifically on talk about EU migration into the UK, and the ways in which this is designed to justify the exclusion of migrants. Gibson, Crossland, and Hamilton (2017) demonstrated how arguments about "social citizenship" were used to argue against allowing EU migration into the UK, here with categories such as "East European" and "immigrants" being presented as particularly likely to claim welfare benefits and therefore to be a financial burden on the UK. Gibson (2015) showed how Polish migrants were presented by young English participants as problematic in terms of the economy, their different culture and because they could be threatening and intimidating.…”

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“Sad day for the UK”: The linking of debates about settling refugee children in the UK with Brexit on an anti‐immigrant news website

Goodman

Narang

2019

Euro J Social Psych

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This article uniquely demonstrates how UK debates about supporting child refugees during the “refugee crisis” came to be used as support for leaving the European Union (EU). The research question “how did users of a news website respond to a report about the UK government's decision to allow child refugees into the UK?” is addressed with a rigorous discursive analysis of an internet discussion forum on the anti‐immigrant website MailOnline consisting of 2,014 unique posts, with a reach of 30 million viewers. Analysis demonstrated that (1) child refugees were presented as adults, (2) allowing in refugees was presented as a “burden” on taxpayers, (3) the decision was presented as opposed to the public's will, and (4) this was used as a warrant for leaving the EU. The significant implication of this analysis is that political attempts at associating the refugee crisis with the EU may have been successful in this context.

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Section: Discursive Research and Anti-immigration Argumentsmentioning

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Section: Discursive Research and Anti-immigration Argumentsmentioning

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“Sad day for the UK”: The linking of debates about settling refugee children in the UK with Brexit on an anti‐immigrant news website

Goodman

Narang

2019

Euro J Social Psych

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“…And the rhetorical nature of discourse and debate implies a focus on how different common sense notions are used to work up particular identities and versions of reality in opposition to potential alternative ones (Billig, ). A discursive and rhetorical approach has successfully been used for analysing political debates in relation, for example, to fact‐based (counter)claims (Demasi, ), social citizenship and immigration (Gibson, Crossland, & Hamilton, ), anti‐establishment rhetoric (Rooyackers & Verkuyten, ), and the discursive construction of ‘otherness’ in political blogs (Sakki & Pettersson, ). The approach allows us to examine how controversy and contestation unfold as situated practices and the implications that this has for political identities and marginality.…”

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Parliamentary identity and the management of the far‐right: A discursive analysis of Dutch parliamentary debates

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Nooitgedagt

2018

British J Social Psychol

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In many Western democratic societies, the far-right has considerable popular support and is often perceived as the winner of political debates. This raises the important question of how other politicians try to manage the far-right. We use parliamentary debates to examine how politicians define the identity of Member of Parliament (MP) in response to Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right Party for Freedom in the Netherlands. The analysis shows that politicians made relevant the shared responsibility of MPs to solve societal problems, by using inclusive language, asking for concrete proposals, and emphasizing engagement in debate. These identity-related features question the parliamentary role performance of the far-right. In response, Wilders stressed the MP's responsibility of representing the ordinary people. The politicians used three strategies to challenge this defence: Questioning that the far-right actually fulfils their selfascribed representative role; challenging the notion that only the far-right would represent the people; moving into a more populist position. Implications for social psychological research on marginal group members are discussed.

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“…In the past 20 years, social psychology has increasingly engaged with citizenship as a topic, contributing useful insights into how people both understand and perform citizenship in various contexts. However, such approaches have largely concentrated on political and civil citizenship, overlooking the social dimension (Gibson, Crossland, & Hamilton, ). This paper makes the case for social citizenship as a useful and important topic for social psychological research and outlines work done in this area to date from outside the discipline.…”

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“…As our arguments are shaped by the material conditions of our lives and personal histories, as well as wider societal influences, this approach allows for a rich exploration that can also incorporate other complex factors such as class, gender, culture, ethnicity, and even health status (McAvoy, ). Of the small amount of discursive social psychological research that explicitly deals with social citizenship as a topic, Gibson et al () focus on the intersection of social citizenship and immigration. In their analysis of online comments about immigration, they found that issues around welfare were often invoked and a repertoire of “effortfulness” was frequently used to negotiate debates about who was or wasn't entitled to the status of full, competent citizen.…”

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Social citizenship and social psychology

Anderson

Gibson

2020

Social & Personality Psych

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This paper outlines the concept of social citizenship, which was first theorized in the late 1940s alongside the creation of the UK welfare state and concerns citizens' rights to a basic income and standard of living. It suggests that social citizenship-particularly welfare provision-is a useful and important topic for social psychological research, albeit one that has been largely overlooked. We provide an overview of key developments in social citizenship and consider the impact of 30-plus years of neoliberal governance in Western democracies, which has resulted in ongoing changes to how welfare rights and responsibilities are configured, such as policies that make social citizenship rights contingent on conduct. We outline social scientific work that examines these shifting ideas of citizenship, personhood, welfare, and conditionality and make the case for a critical discursive psychological approach, which we illustrate with a brief empirical example. We suggest that critical discursive social psychology is particularly well-placed to examine how psychological assumptions are built into both policy and lay discourse and how these can legitimate interventions designed to work on the conduct of the unemployed, such as therapeutic and behavior change initiatives. Finally, we argue that psychology is faced with a choice; while there are opportunities for the discipline to contribute to the design and implementation of such initiatives, to do so requires accepting the basic values of the underpinning neoliberal agenda. Instead, it is vital to place these assumptions under the critical microscope and explore how they work to obscure structural disadvantage.

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Social citizenship and immigration: Employment, welfare, and effortfulness in online discourse concerning migration to the United Kingdom.

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Cited by 10 publications

References 62 publications

“Sad day for the UK”: The linking of debates about settling refugee children in the UK with Brexit on an anti‐immigrant news website

“Sad day for the UK”: The linking of debates about settling refugee children in the UK with Brexit on an anti‐immigrant news website

Parliamentary identity and the management of the far‐right: A discursive analysis of Dutch parliamentary debates

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