Discourses of Control: A Discursive Institutionalist and Foucauldian Analysis of UK Immigration Policy

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2025(X-III).21      10.31703/gpr.2025(X-III).21      Published : Summer 2025
Authored by : Ijlal Khan , Muhammad Mohtasim

21 Pages : 222-233

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2025(X-III).21      10.31703/gpr.2025(X-III).21      Published : Sep 2025

Discourses of Control: A Discursive Institutionalist and Foucauldian Analysis of UK Immigration Policy

    This paper covers the theme that the mass instability and the fact that the UK immigration policy has been ineffective since 2010 can not be attributed to material factors only or the sentiment of individuals. Instead, it is driven by powerful and unified discourses of power that render policy agreeable and the production. The presented study will provide a novel methodological instrument since Discursive Institutionalism (DI) and Foucauldian discourse analysis are merged together. DI illuminates the contribution of the political agencies in producing and challenging persuasive stories, but Foucauldian analysis offers an understanding of the manner in which persuasive stories control and define migrant people as powers by constructing regimes of truth. With the Hostile Environment and recent reforms, the regularity has become evident, which is then succeeded by the leaders adopting the issue of migration as either a sovereignty issue, a management issue, or a situation of crisis.

    Immigration Policy, Discursive Control, Border Sovereignty, Border Control, Political Discourse, Governmentality Power, Migrant Illegalisation, Policy Volatility, Narrative Framing, Immigration Acts U
    (1) Ijlal Khan
    Graduate, Department of International Relations (IR), Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (2) Muhammad Mohtasim
    MS, Public Policy and Governance, Government College University (GCU), Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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    APA : Khan, I., & Mohtasim, M. (2025). Discourses of Control: A Discursive Institutionalist and Foucauldian Analysis of UK Immigration Policy. Global Political Review, X(III), 222-233. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2025(X-III).21
    CHICAGO : Khan, Ijlal, and Muhammad Mohtasim. 2025. "Discourses of Control: A Discursive Institutionalist and Foucauldian Analysis of UK Immigration Policy." Global Political Review, X (III): 222-233 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2025(X-III).21
    HARVARD : KHAN, I. & MOHTASIM, M. 2025. Discourses of Control: A Discursive Institutionalist and Foucauldian Analysis of UK Immigration Policy. Global Political Review, X, 222-233.
    MHRA : Khan, Ijlal, and Muhammad Mohtasim. 2025. "Discourses of Control: A Discursive Institutionalist and Foucauldian Analysis of UK Immigration Policy." Global Political Review, X: 222-233
    MLA : Khan, Ijlal, and Muhammad Mohtasim. "Discourses of Control: A Discursive Institutionalist and Foucauldian Analysis of UK Immigration Policy." Global Political Review, X.III (2025): 222-233 Print.
    OXFORD : Khan, Ijlal and Mohtasim, Muhammad (2025), "Discourses of Control: A Discursive Institutionalist and Foucauldian Analysis of UK Immigration Policy", Global Political Review, X (III), 222-233
    TURABIAN : Khan, Ijlal, and Muhammad Mohtasim. "Discourses of Control: A Discursive Institutionalist and Foucauldian Analysis of UK Immigration Policy." Global Political Review X, no. III (2025): 222-233. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2025(X-III).21