Following up on the UK-France Channel Crossing Forum held on Nov. 7, this document compiles several comments in view of channelling scientific-informed conversations into policy guidance.
Policy brief on the impact of narratives on policymaking at the national level
This Policy Brief focuses on how migration narratives shape and are deployed in political debate and policymaking. Drawing on research on migration narratives in six European countries, it outlines six key findings and sets out four recommendations for officials and stakeholders to encourage a calm and evidence-based debate on immigration.
Comparative analysis of migration narratives in political debate and policymaking
This Working Paper analyses how different narratives on migration shape and are deployed in political debate and policymaking. It investigates how political actors process salient narratives on migration that emerge in the public and political domain and how they inform policy.
Policy Brief on the impact of narratives on EU policymaking
This Policy Brief looks at the implications of migration narratives for European policy-making. It drafts recommendations for members and officials of European institutions that may contribute to shaping narratives for fairer, comprehensive, and balanced European policy responses to migration and asylum.
The impact of narratives on EU policymaking
This Working Paper investigates the main migration narratives circulating on media, political debates, and policy venues within the EU over the past decade. It focuses on the 2015 “refugee crisis” and the 2022 activation of the Temporary Protection Directive for those fleeing Russian aggression against Ukraine.
The impact of narratives on policymaking at the national level: the case of the UK
This Working Paper analyses how different narratives on migration shape and are deployed in political debate and policymaking in the United Kingdom. It investigates how political actors process salient narratives on migration that emerge in the public and political domain and how they inform policy.
The impact of narratives on policymaking at the national level: the case of France
This Working Paper examines the way in which narratives on migration circulate in France across communicative and coordinative spheres. It explores whether narratives are embraced, adapted, ignored, or rejected between the media, Parliament, and administrations.
The impact of narratives on policymaking at the national level: the case of Italy
This Working Paper analyses how recurrent elements of certain migration narratives circulate in the communicative (media and political arenas) and in the coordinative spheres (the one of policy making) at different levels in the Italian political system, focusing on three specific events.
The impact of narratives on policymaking at the national level: the case of Spain
This Working Paper analyses the interplay of migration narratives as they traverse the media, politics, and policymaking arenas in Spain. More specifically, it examines how narratives on migration, circulate within the mass media and the political debate and subsequently influence policy-making processes.
The impact of narratives on policymaking at the national level: the case of Germany
This Working Paper investigates the evolving landscape of migration narratives in Germany. It delves into whether and how media narratives are embraced, adapted, ignored or rejected in political debates and policymaking.
The impact of narratives on policymaking at the national level: the case of Hungary
This Working Paper analyses the main narratives of migration in Hungary and describes the structure into which the processes of producing and circulating them characterizes the contemporary Hungarian communicative and political segments.
Migration narratives in political debate and policy-making
This concept note develops a conceptual and methodological framework for the analysis of how different narratives shape, and are deployed in, political debate and policy-making. It sets out the features and functions of narratives in public political debate and policy-making; analyses how actors respond to different narratives; and develops a method for empirically identifying these strategies.
