This article highlights that by focusing on concepts, many contemporary discourses
increasingly turn towards (re/definitions of) various abstract ideas while moving their focus …

The purpose of this article is to explore the existing intersectional knowledge on integration
and resettlement of refugees with disabilities in two of the top five resettlement countries in …

In this article I analyze Twitter accounts of key political actors to show that the topoi and
legitimation strategies these actors employ change over time and argue that this change is …

The EU referendum was arguably the greatest political event in British politics since 1945
and the campaign was marked by divisive rhetoric. This paper investigates how Britain's …

Right wing populism has always been exclusionary in nature and relies on classic positive
in-group/negative out-group constructions (van Dijk 1998). This chapter investigates how the …

Much of the research in social and cultural psychology on refugee integration or
acculturation has tended to adopt a socio‐cognitive approach which assumes this to be a …

The article argues that the intertextuality of country of origin information (COI) plays a
significant part in constructing asylum decisions and therefore the lives and futures of those …

This paper explores the impact of the UK's racialized asylum system on mothers and their
children. Asylum-seeking mothers in the UK are treated with hostility and suspicion and …

The 'refugee crisis' in Europe has drawn attention to the reasons why people risk desperate
journeys to seek safety. However, less research has focussed on what happens to those on …

This editorial presents the theoretical background underpinning all the chapters of the
volume, which are part of a research project aiming at identifying the ways racist discourse …