England's Green and Pleasant Lands? Categorising migrants and protecting idylls through respectibilisation

Nathan Kerrigan

England's Green and Pleasant Lands? Categorising migrants and protecting idylls through respectibilisation

Nathan Kerrigan

School of Psychological, Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Abstract

Using discourse analysis on interviews conducted with host residents from a small rural town in the south of England, the aim of this paper is to explore the way residents categorise migrants in terms of their suitability and attainability of representing the town’s ‘rural idyll’. Analysis shows how the categorisation of migrants was contingent on their social position/standing, in which those who conformed to middle-class occupations (i.e. being a ‘Doctor’) were more readily accepted than those with working-class employment. This paper demonstrates how categories of migrants were used to restrict or enable belonging to the wider rural community in order to protect the ‘rural idyll’ of the town

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The 27th European Society of Rural Sociology Congress conference proceedings
Publisher	Jagiellonian University
Pages	78-79
ISBN (Electronic)	978-83-947775-0-0
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	The 27th European Society of Rural Sociology Congress - Krakow, Poland Duration: 24 Jul 2017 → 27 Jul 2017

Conference

Conference	The 27th European Society of Rural Sociology Congress
Country	Poland
City	Krakow
Period	24/07/17 → 27/07/17

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Kerrigan, N 2017, England's Green and Pleasant Lands? Categorising migrants and protecting idylls through respectibilisation. in The 27th European Society of Rural Sociology Congress conference proceedings. Jagiellonian University, pp. 78-79, The 27th European Society of Rural Sociology Congress, Krakow, Poland, 24/07/17. <http://www.ruralsociology.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Proceedings-ESRS-Krakow.pdf>

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