{"id":386,"date":"2015-04-28T10:13:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T09:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/general-election\/?p=386"},"modified":"2016-05-13T13:26:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T12:26:04","slug":"immigration-a-subject-that-is-everywhere-and-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/general-election\/immigration-a-subject-that-is-everywhere-and-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration: a subject that is everywhere and nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_111\" style=\"width: 765px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/general-election\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/03\/ed-milliband-2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[386]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111\" class=\"size-large wp-image-111\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/general-election\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/03\/ed-milliband-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Labour will launch its immigration strategy today (28 April 2015)  Image: Thinkstock\" width=\"755\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/03\/ed-milliband-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/03\/ed-milliband-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/03\/ed-milliband-2-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Labour will launch its immigration strategy today (28 April 2015) Image: Thinkstock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In our recent <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/general-election\/media-coverage-of-the-2015-general-election-report-2\">election campaign reports<\/a>, we have shown that immigration (and other related issues) has failed to attain the levels of coverage that its position among \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos-mori.com\/researchpublications\/researcharchive\/3542\/EconomistIpsos-MORI-March-2015-Issues-Index.aspx\">the list of public policy concerns<\/a> might warrant, occupying only 3.7 % of coverage\u00a0between 30 March and 20 April.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past week, however, it seems that outside pressures may have forced the issue onto the news agenda.\u00a0Despite the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean and its entanglement with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2014\/oct\/27\/uk-mediterranean-migrant-rescue-plan\">British immigration politics<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/reality-check\/2015\/apr\/24\/are-uk-failures-in-libya-to-blame-for-mediterranean-migrant-crisis\">foreign policy<\/a>, it was not until Thursday&#8217;s Daily Mail\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/suttonnick\/status\/590989836787539968\">front page<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-3051489\/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Immigration-issue-time-totally-ignored-major-parties.html\">editorial\u00a0<\/a>that the 2015 &#8216;short campaign&#8217; had seen the prominent politicisation of immigration in electoral terms, beyond the efforts of Nigel Farage in the leadership debates.\u00a0The Mail&#8217;s front page referred to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos-mori.com\/researchpublications\/researcharchive\/3559\/First-results-from-major-longitudinal-survey-on-attitudes-to-immigration.aspx\">poll by Ipsos-MORI<\/a>\u00a0which, the paper claimed, placed pressure on David Cameron and the Conservatives to be &#8216;far tougher on mass immigration&#8217; than they\u00a0had been thus far in the campaign. Immigration is, apparently, the &#8216;subject that dare not speak its name&#8217;. Certainly, Ipsos&#8217; poll suggests that there are more people who think immigration has been discussed &#8216;too little&#8217; over the last few years\/months (37%)\u00a0than people who think it has been discussed &#8216;too much&#8217; (27%), but this betrays a\u00a0decrease of the former (from 62% in 2011) and an\u00a0increase of the latter (from 11% in 2011) over the past few years. The pressure placed on the Prime Minister by the Mail and the Ipsos poll had told by Friday, when Cameron penned a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3053108\/Why-trust-Tories-migration-DAVID-CAMERON.html\">column<\/a>\u00a0for the newspaper (featured on the day&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hendopolis\/status\/591354020192620544\">front page<\/a>), declaring that the electorate could trust only the Tories on immigration and that a vote for UKIP would let in a Labour-SNP government of &#8216;uncontrolled immigration&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pressing the matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It might be suggested that this episode proves that it isn&#8217;t until a national newspaper uses its prime editorial space to directly challenge party leaders to address the issue that the debate can finally begin. Certainly, later on Friday Ed Miliband was accused of making political capital out of the Mediterranean crisis by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/election-2015-32441968\">connecting it with failures in post-conflict planning in Libya<\/a>, which married foreign policy issues with immigration. And on Saturday the Guardian &#8211; though unrelated to the Daily Mail&#8217;s intervention &#8211; devoted part of their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/apr\/24\/guardian-view-britains-choice-2015-immigration\">editorial<\/a>\u00a0to the case for an &#8216;outward facing&#8217; debate and the political courage necessary to achieve it.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to appreciate that our sample data only covers the formal election campaign period. In the weeks before, there were higher levels of press\u00a0and TV engagement with immigration politics. For example, the Mail reported in February on foreign patients &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2940320\/At-crackdown-foreign-patients-abusing-NHS-Sick-visitors-EU-cost-400million-year.html\">abusing the NHS<\/a>&#8216;. In March, the Express reported on the nation&#8217;s &#8216;asylum bill&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/561302\/Asylum-seekers-cost-taxpayers-726k-day-immigration\">standing at \u00a3726,000 a day<\/a>, before the Independent\u00a0reported the next day on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/act-now-to-overhaul-britains-shocking-detention-of-migrants-indefinitely-and-in-appalling-conditions-say-mps-10081353.html\">MPs&#8217; calls for immediate action on the &#8216;shocking&#8217;\u00a0detention of asylum seekers<\/a>.\u00a0The Express then warned of a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/562452\/Fury-new-EU-migrant-plan-UK-forced-accept-more-foreigners\">&#8216;new migrant flood on [the] way&#8217;<\/a>, and the Mail reported on Trevor Phillips&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2996235\/At-man-dares-tell-truth-race-Ex-race-tsar-says-silencing-debate-devastating-harm-Britain.html\">assertion<\/a>\u00a0that discussion about &#8216;race&#8217; had been silenced by the politically correct. As a counterpoint, the Guardian placed the number 298,000 in large Union Flag-filled type above the claim that &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/suttonnick\/status\/578679122571968514\">this is the number fuelling UK growth&#8217; (&#8216;But you won&#8217;t hear the story from politicians. That&#8217;s because it&#8217;s the M word. Migrants&#8217;)<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The &#8216;I-word&#8217; or the &#8216;M-word&#8217;?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These examples suggest\u00a0there are some marked divisions in how national newspapers discuss the issue. Indeed, the Guardian&#8217;s mention of Migrants as the &#8216;M-word&#8217; that politicians neglect to suitably celebrate is reminiscent &#8211; though antithetical &#8211; of the Mail&#8217;s naming of immigration in 2010 (and in Thursday&#8217;s editorial) as the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/cached.imagescaler.hbpl.co.uk\/resize\/scaleHeight\/414\/offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk\/galleries\/OWM\/802_72092_Daily-Mail.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[386]\">I-Word<\/a>&#8216; politicians were\u00a0too scared to discuss.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/series\/immigration-special\">The Guardian<\/a>\u00a0and the Independent, in particular, seem to be the outlets most likely to promote a &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/1467-9256.12082\/abstract\">cosmopolitan<\/a>&#8216; view of immigration events, in contrast with their far less sanguine competitors whose perspectives focus more\u00a0on the costs of immigration.<\/p>\n<p>I have just completed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/departments\/socialsciences\/staff\/smith-david.html\" target=\"_blank\">an historical investigation into the reporting of immigration news<\/a> in the national press for each of the general election campaigns since 1918. The reasons for doing this were clear: I wanted to know whether and how immigration news had intensified and become politicised during election campaigns over time. Without an adequate appreciation of the historical depth of the mediated immigration debate it is difficult to make such claims or to understand how recent coverage fits in with longer term patterns.<\/p>\n<p>My findings reveal that\u00a0immigration has featured in nearly all post-WW2 election campaigns, with the exception of the first couple which followed the conflict.\u00a0The first identifiable peak in coverage came during the elections campaigns of the 1960s &#8211; a decade notable for the\u00a0rise of Enoch Powell, the first legislative steps to curb the immigration of non-white migrants from the New Commonwealth and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smethwick_in_the_1964_general_election\">Smethwick<\/a>. This level of coverage was not sustained into the 1970s though, and it wasn&#8217;t until the campaigns of the 2000s that immigration coverage increased dramatically.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/general-election\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/04\/Chart-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[386]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-387\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/general-election\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/04\/Chart-1.jpg\" alt=\"Chart 1\" width=\"484\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/04\/Chart-1.jpg 484w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/04\/Chart-1-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Substantial and superficial coverage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, when the coverage is broken down into whether immigration is the main or the secondary focus of the news article, the picture appears far less conclusive about the recent increase in coverage. The chart below suggests, in fact, that the 1970 campaign featured more &#8216;in depth&#8217; immigration coverage than the 2010 campaign. In fact, recent overall inclines in coverage have come in large part due to an increase in the amount of coverage which focuses on immigration in a secondary way. This appears to\u00a0demonstrate the extent to which the issue has become politicised and entrenched as a routine election topic alongside other more established policy areas.<\/p>\n<p><del><\/del><del><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/general-election\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/04\/Chart2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[386]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-388\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/general-election\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/04\/Chart2.jpg\" alt=\"Chart2\" width=\"483\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/04\/Chart2.jpg 483w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/04\/Chart2-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/a><\/del><\/p>\n<p><strong>History lessons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What can this historical data tell us about the contemporary debate? At first glance, it permits us to see that immigration is certainly not a taboo subject, and has been widely discussed across the press, particularly in recent campaigns. But a substantial proportion of the increase in its coverage appears to be fairly superficial in nature. An unfortunate consequence of this is that it may sometimes feel as if it is everywhere and nowhere at once. Unfortunate, too, is that it is often invoked, as in the aftermath of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jFl_evwML2M\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;bigot-gate&#8217;<\/a> in 2010, as something politicians may &#8216;win&#8217; or &#8216;lose&#8217; on and as such has seemingly become regularly incorporated into electoral process coverage rather than deliberative and substantive policy discussion. A recent example of this effect can be seen in the response to Labour&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2015\/mar\/29\/diane-abbott-labour-immigration-controls-mugs-shameful\">Controls on Immigration<\/a>&#8216; mug, about which much of the discussion centred on various politicians and commentators condemning or distancing themselves from the mug, rather than any elaboration and critique on the pledge itself.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/departments\/socialsciences\/staff\/smith-david.html\" target=\"_blank\">David Smith<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our recent election campaign reports, we have shown that immigration (and other related issues) has failed to attain the levels of coverage that its position among \u00a0the list of public policy concerns might warrant, occupying only 3.7 % of coverage\u00a0between 30 March and 20 April. 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