This thesis is a discourse-analytical study of SELF and OTHER representations in contemporary Russian discourse on migration. The overall aim of this thesis is to explore how SELF and OTHER discourse participants are represented in pro-governmental discourse, to which extent the ideology of pro-governmental media discourse can be classified as discriminatory towards migrants and how it changes in the period between the years 2006 and 2009. The discussion is based on the results of the discourse analysis of the corpus of texts collected from three various sources. Firstly, the pro-governmental moderate corpus of media articles collected from the website of the Moscow City Council in August – November 2006 is compared to the corpus of texts collected from the website of the radical anti-migrant movement DPNI. The purpose of this comparative study is to establish the extent of commonalities through the analysis of referential-categorizing and evaluative strategies between thee two types of discourse. Moreover, in the instances of represented discourse, it is important to understand how journalists position themselves and the readers with respect to the evaluative force of the statements. The results received from the analysis of these strategies are used to construct discourse space ontology for SELF and OTHER representations. Secondly, the moderate corpus is extended to receive more data for the analysis of conceptual imagery, i.e. metaphors. The analysis of metaphors confirms tendencies typical of migration discourse but also has its special pattern which is attributed to sociocultural specifics explored through the examination of conceptual blends. The evaluative dimension constitutes an important aspect of the discourse analysis of conceptual imagery. Finally, a multimodal corpus of verbal and visual data representing a protest action by the pro-governmental youth movement “Molodaia Gvardiia” at the end of 2008 – beginning of 2009 is searched for specific strategies of SELF and OTHER representation. The analysis shows an extensive use of discursive strategies typical of racist ideology used for the representation of SELF and OTHER discourse participants in pro-governmental media discourse on migration.

Seit Mitte der 1990-er Jahre wird in den sechs Staaten des Golf-Kooperationsrates über die Konsequenzen der massiven Arbeitsimmigration für die arabischen Gesellschaften dieser Länder diskutiert. Während die Immigranten und ihre Lebenssituation in den Regionalwissenschaften zur Golfregion zunehmend Beachtung finden, ist der arabische Einwanderungskurs kaum untersucht. Am Beispiel von Print- und Onlinemedien aus dem Zeitraum 2008-2013 untersucht die Dissertation von Daniel Falk den Einwanderungsdiskurs der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate. Was ist die Perspektive der Aufnahmegesellschaft? Wie in den Golfstaaten über Migranten und Migrationsprozesse gesprochen, geschrieben und diskutiert?:1 Einleitung 1 1.1 Die Ausgangssituation 1 1.2 Forschungsstand und Ziel der Arbeit 5 1.3 Fragestellung und Erkenntnisinteresse 8 1.4 Aufbau der Arbeit 9 2 Theoretische und methodische Vorüberlegungen 11 2.1 Migration, Migranten und Migrationsregime 11 2.2 Islamische und arabische Konzepte von Migration 12 2.3 Mediale Migrantenbilder und die Analyse des Einwanderungsdiskurses 14 2.4 Auswahl der Quellen 21 3 Die zweigeteilte Gesellschaft 27 3.1 Historischer Rückblick 27 3.2 Die Gegenwart der zweigeteilten Gesellschaft 32 3.3 Exkurs: Die politische Ökonomie der zweigeteilten Gesellschaft 42 3.4 Arabisch vs. Englisch: zwei Sprachen – zweigeteilte Öffentlichkeit? 48 4 Der emiratische Einwanderungsdiskurs 2008-2013 50 4.1 Die thematische Verortung der Artikel 51 4.2 Argumente und Argumentationsmuster 62 4.3 Metaphorik: der emiratische Tropfen im Ozean der Migranten 92 4.4 Von der Diagnose zur Therapie: Lösungsvorschläge für das „Bevölkerungsproblem“ 109 4.5 Dichotomien des Fremden und des Eigenen 124 4.6 Leserkommentare auf albayan.ae und emaratalyoum.com 145 5 Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse 167 Literaturverzeichnis 173 Anhang 180 / Migration to the Gulf countries over the past decades has led to dramatic change not only within the population structure. Especially in smaller Gulf countries, like Qatar and the UAE, where native Arab populations amount for less than 20 per cent of the total population, it had strong effects also on identity constructions, as the native “national” societies became minorities within their own countries. As this process continues, fears of losing the respective (Arab, Gulf, Emirati, Qatari …) identity are increasingly being voiced and calls for political action to take on this issue are becoming louder. This PhD project aimed at analysing the Arabic discourse on migration and identity and between 2008 and 2013. By analysing Arabic language mass media from the UAE it looked not only at representations of immigrants but also at of processes and consequences of migration and perceived loss of identity, e.g. the dis-course on the „population imbalance“ (al-khalal fi at-tarkeeba as-sukkaniyya). By focusing on the Arabic discourse the thesis seeks to counter-weigh a wide-spread phenomenon in Gulf-related social sciences and humanities: many studies on the region build on English-language sources and material only, thus ignoring the fact that a majority Gulf nationals still speak, write and think in their native language and constructing a biased image of Gulf societies. Especially in connection to such delicate topics like immigration and identity it is important to understand the respective (Emirati, Qatari…) perspective.:1 Einleitung 1 1.1 Die Ausgangssituation 1 1.2 Forschungsstand und Ziel der Arbeit 5 1.3 Fragestellung und Erkenntnisinteresse 8 1.4 Aufbau der Arbeit 9 2 Theoretische und methodische Vorüberlegungen 11 2.1 Migration, Migranten und Migrationsregime 11 2.2 Islamische und arabische Konzepte von Migration 12 2.3 Mediale Migrantenbilder und die Analyse des Einwanderungsdiskurses 14 2.4 Auswahl der Quellen 21 3 Die zweigeteilte Gesellschaft 27 3.1 Historischer Rückblick 27 3.2 Die Gegenwart der zweigeteilten Gesellschaft 32 3.3 Exkurs: Die politische Ökonomie der zweigeteilten Gesellschaft 42 3.4 Arabisch vs. Englisch: zwei Sprachen – zweigeteilte Öffentlichkeit? 48 4 Der emiratische Einwanderungsdiskurs 2008-2013 50 4.1 Die thematische Verortung der Artikel 51 4.2 Argumente und Argumentationsmuster 62 4.3 Metaphorik: der emiratische Tropfen im Ozean der Migranten 92 4.4 Von der Diagnose zur Therapie: Lösungsvorschläge für das „Bevölkerungsproblem“ 109 4.5 Dichotomien des Fremden und des Eigenen 124 4.6 Leserkommentare auf albayan.ae und emaratalyoum.com 145 5 Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse 167 Literaturverzeichnis 173 Anhang 180

The diploma thesis "Discourse analysis of the "Sarrazin-Debatte": Analysis of the migration discourse in transregional daily newspaper in 2010"deals with the controversial "Sarrazin debate" and its impact on the migration discourse in 2010. After describing the process of the debate follows discourse analysis of four German transregional daily newspapers, which can be considered as representatives of a simple political spectrum from right to left wing. The goal of the analysis is to determine the thematic structure of the discourse and to define patterns of interpretation and statement of integration an immigrants.

The motivation for this thesis has been based on the desire to conduct a contemporary study of securitization in the European Union's migration discourse. This takes into account the extraordinary circumstance of a war in the EU's close proximity and the unique approach the EU has shown towards the people fleeing the war, which seems to differ from the approach observed in research so far. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the EU presents a securitized migration discourse by examining its discursive presentation of migration and how this presentation relates to securitization. The study is based on the migration discourse presented by the European Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission on the institutions' official websites. The study has been conducted as a qualitative discourse analysis using Carol Bacchi's WPR approach, with the Copenhagen School's securitization theory as the study's theoretical framework. By critically examining the problem definitions, premises and silences in the discourse, the result has shown that the EU mainly presents a securitized migration discourse, which, however, shifts in relation to the referent object of the discourse, i.e. whose security is in question.