Abstract
The free movement of people (FMP) has been a core principle of European Union (EU) integration since its beginnings, but it has recently become contested. This article traces the politicization of FMP, and the topics associated with it, over time and across countries. Rather than constituting a linear or uniform trend, we argue that the politicization of FMP is differentiated: it is driven by particular events such as Eastern enlargement, mitigated by restrictive domestic policies anticipating the expansion of EU free movement rights, and that FMP is salient, but not polarized, from an emigration country perspective. Combining structural topic modelling and qualitative text analysis, we compare three decades of news coverage of FMP in Austria, Germany, Poland and the UK.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 291-314 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Journal of European Public Policy |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Funding
We would like to thank JEPP’s anonymous reviewers and Cecilia Bruzelius, Andreas Dür, Markus Gastinger, Leila Hadj-Abdou and Susanne K. Schmidt for their very helpful comments. Funding for this article by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) is gratefully acknowledged [grant number I 4064].
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 506004 European integration
Keywords
- emigration
- Free movement of people
- policy styles
- politicization
- topic modelling
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