As the portion of the foreign-born population continues to grow across the European Union, gaps in overall political participation between immigrants and natives persist. This is a cause for...Show moreAs the portion of the foreign-born population continues to grow across the European Union, gaps in overall political participation between immigrants and natives persist. This is a cause for concern to European democracies, specifically regarding their representativeness of the entirety of the population that constitutes them and that they are meant to serve. While scholars have focused on more conventional forms of political participation, this research aims to specifically focus on protests as a non-conventional form of political participation while taking both experienced and perceived discrimination as the main motivators and major determinants of this type of political behavior. Using data from the Survey on Minorities and Discrimination in EU conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in 2016, this paper argues that both the experience and perception of discrimination are positively related to participation in protest behaviors amongst citizens of immigrant origin. This paper uses a binary logistic regression with experienced and perceived discrimination as predictor variables, and participation in protest as the response variable, while controlling for six key factors: age, gender, income, generation of immigration, interest in politics, and education. Countries were also used as control variables to counter potential biases in the results from the clustering that often occurs with the use of survey data.Show less
Several scholars have already studied how certain groups are in- and excluded in discourse. Their studies have demonstrated how certain stylistic choices from textual analyses denote that certain...Show moreSeveral scholars have already studied how certain groups are in- and excluded in discourse. Their studies have demonstrated how certain stylistic choices from textual analyses denote that certain groups are excluded in discourse. Contemporary studies have already covered Trump’s verbal style and rhetoric during the 2016 presidential election. Previous research, however, has not covered how Trump’s campaign rhetoric during the 2016 presidential election contributed to the general impression that he excludes immigrants. Therefore, this thesis aims to provide an answer to which stylistic choices contribute to the impression that the Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump excludes immigrants in his immigration speech held on 31 August 2016.Show less
This thesis examines two alt-right manifestos through the lens of the Discourse-Historical Approach, a branch of Critical Discourse Analysis. It considers how the manifestos' authors use linguistic...Show moreThis thesis examines two alt-right manifestos through the lens of the Discourse-Historical Approach, a branch of Critical Discourse Analysis. It considers how the manifestos' authors use linguistic discursive strategies to discriminate between their own in-group and an out-group of immigrants. The research uses a novel approach with insights from other disciplines in order to highlight inclusionary and exclusionary language in the manifestos and analyze how it functions in the construction and portrayal of these two groups.Show less
