Markus Rheindorf is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria. His research interests include Critical Discourse Studies, Migration Studies, Media Discourse and Populism.Ruth Wodak is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University, UK and the University of Vienna, Austria. She has published widely, including The Politics of Fear: What Right-wing Populist Discourses Mean (2015, Sage).

• Chapter 1. Markus Rheindorf & Ruth Wodak: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Migration Control: An IntroductionChapter 2. Kristof Savski: Migrants from other States of the Former Yugoslavia in Slovene Language Policy: Past, Present and FutureChapter 3. Tony Capstick: Resisting Discriminatory Immigration Procedures and Practices in the UK and Pakistan: A Discourse Ethnographic Approach to Exploring Migration LiteraciesChapter 4. Anna De Fina: Biography as Political Tool: The Case of the DreamersChapter 5. Jo Angouri, Marina Paraskevaidi and Federico Zannoni: Moving for a Better Life: Negotiating Fitting in and Belonging in Modern Diasporas               Chapter 6. Markus Rheindorf and Ruth Wodak: Building “Fortress Europe”: Legitimizing Exclusion from Basic Human RightsChapter 7. Iair G. Or and Elana Shohamy: “Youth should be sent here to absorb Zionism”: Jewish Farmers and Thai Migrant Workers in Southern Israel

The current political discourses on processes of globalization, migration and social participation capitalize on feelings of fear and insecurity. They demonize ‘the other’, thereby turning the spotlight away from the systemic problems of social inequality and poverty. Based on concrete cases, this ‘must read’ book deconstructs the covert and overt mechanisms of migration control, exclusion and discrimination.

Markus Rheindorf is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria. His research interests include Critical Discourse Studies, Migration Studies, Media Discourse and Populism.Ruth Wodak is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University, UK and the University of Vienna, Austria. She has published widely, including The Politics of Fear: What Right-wing Populist Discourses Mean (2015, Sage).

• Chapter 1. Markus Rheindorf & Ruth Wodak: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Migration Control: An IntroductionChapter 2. Kristof Savski: Migrants from other States of the Former Yugoslavia in Slovene Language Policy: Past, Present and FutureChapter 3. Tony Capstick: Resisting Discriminatory Immigration Procedures and Practices in the UK and Pakistan: A Discourse Ethnographic Approach to Exploring Migration LiteraciesChapter 4. Anna De Fina: Biography as Political Tool: The Case of the DreamersChapter 5. Jo Angouri, Marina Paraskevaidi and Federico Zannoni: Moving for a Better Life: Negotiating Fitting in and Belonging in Modern Diasporas               Chapter 6. Markus Rheindorf and Ruth Wodak: Building “Fortress Europe”: Legitimizing Exclusion from Basic Human RightsChapter 7. Iair G. Or and Elana Shohamy: “Youth should be sent here to absorb Zionism”: Jewish Farmers and Thai Migrant Workers in Southern Israel

The current political discourses on processes of globalization, migration and social participation capitalize on feelings of fear and insecurity. They demonize ‘the other’, thereby turning the spotlight away from the systemic problems of social inequality and poverty. Based on concrete cases, this ‘must read’ book deconstructs the covert and overt mechanisms of migration control, exclusion and discrimination.

Markus Rheindorf is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria. His research interests include Critical Discourse Studies, Migration Studies, Media Discourse and Populism.Ruth Wodak is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University, UK and the University of Vienna, Austria. She has published widely, including The Politics of Fear: What Right-wing Populist Discourses Mean (2015, Sage).

• Chapter 1. Markus Rheindorf & Ruth Wodak: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Migration Control: An IntroductionChapter 2. Kristof Savski: Migrants from other States of the Former Yugoslavia in Slovene Language Policy: Past, Present and FutureChapter 3. Tony Capstick: Resisting Discriminatory Immigration Procedures and Practices in the UK and Pakistan: A Discourse Ethnographic Approach to Exploring Migration LiteraciesChapter 4. Anna De Fina: Biography as Political Tool: The Case of the DreamersChapter 5. Jo Angouri, Marina Paraskevaidi and Federico Zannoni: Moving for a Better Life: Negotiating Fitting in and Belonging in Modern Diasporas               Chapter 6. Markus Rheindorf and Ruth Wodak: Building “Fortress Europe”: Legitimizing Exclusion from Basic Human RightsChapter 7. Iair G. Or and Elana Shohamy: “Youth should be sent here to absorb Zionism”: Jewish Farmers and Thai Migrant Workers in Southern Israel

The current political discourses on processes of globalization, migration and social participation capitalize on feelings of fear and insecurity. They demonize ‘the other’, thereby turning the spotlight away from the systemic problems of social inequality and poverty. Based on concrete cases, this ‘must read’ book deconstructs the covert and overt mechanisms of migration control, exclusion and discrimination.