@inproceedings{blaette-etal-2020-europeanization,
    title = "The {E}uropeanization of Parliamentary Debates on Migration in {A}ustria, {F}rance, {G}ermany, and the {N}etherlands",
    author = "Blaette, Andreas  and
      Gehlhar, Simon  and
      Leonhardt, Christoph",
    editor = "Fi{\v{s}}er, Darja  and
      Eskevich, Maria  and
      de Jong, Franciska",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second ParlaCLARIN Workshop",
    month = may,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Marseille, France",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2020.parlaclarin-1.12/",
    pages = "66--74",
    language = "eng",
    ISBN = "979-10-95546-47-4",
    abstract = "Corpora of plenary debates in national parliaments are available for many European states. For comparative research on political discourse, a persisting problem is that the periods covered by corpora differ and that a lack of standardization of data formats inhibits the integration of corpora into a single analytical framework. The solution we pursue is a `Framework for Parsing Plenary Protocols' (frappp), which has been used to prepare corpora of the Assembl{\'e}e Nationale ({`}{`}ParisParl''), the German Bundestag ({`}{`}GermaParl''), the Tweede Kamer of the Netherlands ({`}{`}TweedeTwee''), and the Austrian Nationalrat ({`}{`}AustroParl'') for the first two decades of the 21st century (2000-2019). To demonstrate the usefulness of the data gained, we investigate the Europeanization of migration debates in these Western European countries of immigration, i.e. references to a European dimension of policy-making in speeches on migration and integration. Based on a segmentation of the corpora into speeches, the method we use is topic modeling, and the analysis of joint occurrences of topics indicating migration and European affairs, respectively. A major finding is that after 2015, we see an increasing Europeanization of migration debates in the small EU member states in our sample (Austria and the Netherlands), and a regression of respective Europeanization in France and {--} more notably {--} in Germany."
}