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Publication details [#65108]

Demetriou, Deanna. 2018. Welfare restrictions and ‘benefit tourists’: Representations and evaluations of EU migrants in the UK. Communications 43 (3) : 379–403.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | evaluation | internet | migration | representational structure

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/COMM/html

Annotation

This paper explores online representations and evaluations of EU migrants, centering on the ‘benefit tourism’ concept and disourse strategies employed in the (de)legitimization of novel welfare limitations in the UK.