Polish Plumber as a Pawn in the British Newspaper Discourse on Polish Post-EU Enlargement Immigration to the UK (Top Paper - 1st Place).

When Poland joined the European Union in May 2004, the U.K., Ireland, and Sweden opened their job markets to Poles, and the United Kingdom became a major destination for Poles seeking work. The discourses about immigrants serve as a barometer of fears regarding inclusion, permeability of borders, and national identity. The expansion of EU institutions, policies, and borders both create structural possibilities for new forms of identification and inspire economic and political fears, and thus raise questions about how the media negotiate the meanings of the EU, the nation, and Europe in their representation of the migration of EU citizens to EU member states. We investigate how the newspaper discourses negotiate the relationship between the meanings and relationships of the U.K. nation-state and the European Union through the subject of immigrant Poles in two major U.K. newspapers, Daily Mail and the Observer. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]