This volume explores how linguistic narratives of migration, citizenship, and freedom of movement expose the tensions between legal frameworks and lived experiences.This book provides a dynamic exploration of alternative migration narratives across the EU, promoting awareness of freedom of movement, European values, and citizenship rights. It brings together personal stories and innovative educational practices to challenge racism and discrimination, strengthen European identity, and inspire active engagement with the core ideals of the EU project. In Part I, contributors critically examine how migration is framed in public narratives, including media hate speech, xenophobic online discourse, political speeches, and the spread of disinformation. Part II introduces the Freedom of Movement Project (FOM@Play), offering a deep dive into private narratives of migration, personal stories of mobility, and the construction of European identities. Part III applies these insights to education, showcasing innovative approaches to citizenship and values education within European higher education.This book will be of interest to students in, Language and Communication, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics, Language and Law, Migration Studies, as well as students and scholars across Social Science, Clinical Psychology, and policymaking.
Katie J. Patterson is a Lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Granada. Her research focuses on metaphor, lexical priming, psycholinguistics and critical discourse analysis, with particular interests in extremist discourse, disinformation, populism and migration narratives.
1. Reframing Mobility: Discourse, Narratives and Freedom of Movement in Contemporary Europe and Beyond - Katie J. Patterson, Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Part I - Migration in the Public Sphere: Narratives, Representations and Ideologies, 2. The Gaze of the Other: Xenophobic Discourse on Migrants’ Identity on the Social Network X - Francisco José Sánchez García, 3. Migration in the Post-Brexit UK: A Critical Discourse Analysis of British Tabloids’ Facebook Comment Sections - Maria Cristina Nisco & Annalisa Raffone, 4. Discursive perspectives from the Global South: the representation of immigrants and emigrants in Nigerian newspaper discourse - Dario Del Fante, 5. How many Europes? Investigating discourses of Europeanness through corpus-assisted methodologies - Arianna Grasso, Part II – Migration and Freedom of Movement: Introducing the FOM@PLAY project, 6. FOM@PLAY: a platform for the distribution of multilingual corpora, discourse analysis and social justice - Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Antonio Carrión-González & Patricio Santiago-Illán, 7. EU Freedom of Movement, Bordering and Membership: A Framework for the Analysis of EU Mobility Discourse - Katherine E. Russo, Part III - The FOM@PLAY project: Migrant Voices and Narratives, 8. Talk about people: Others, otherness and decentring in mobility narratives - Maï Leray & Henry Tyne, 9. Identities and Emotions on the Move: Exploring the Past and the Present in EU Migrant Narratives - Arianna del Gaudio, 10. Constructing mobility-mediated identities: Romanian citizens in Spain - Pablo Muñiz-Cegarra, Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Pilar Aguado-Jiménez, 11. Getting to the heart of migration stories: Exploring individual paths in narratives of mobility - Maï Leray, 12. Constructing identities in the EU: a corpus-assisted analysis of the narratives of German and Italian citizens living in Spain - María José Marín-Pérez, Pascual Pérez-Paredes & Pilar Aguado-Jiménez, 13. Agency and affordances in student mobility narratives: Evidence from the FOM@Play corpus - Henry Tyne, 14. Beyond Borders: Gender Perspectives on Freedom of Movement - Anna Mongibello, Part IV – From Discourse to Practice: Pedagogy, Media Literacy and Social Impact, 15. Migration, Media Literacy and Fake News Awareness Among Spanish Secondary School Students on Social Media - Borja Manzano Vázquez, Sergio Castro-Cortacero & Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio, 16. Teaching-learning materials for educating university students in European values: The case of the FOM@Play Project - Miguel-Ángel Benítez-Castro, Esther Edo-Agustín, Jennifer Moreno, Ana-Cristina Vivas-Peraza, Teresa Barea-García, María-José Luzón-Marco & Purificación Pérez-García, Index