The European Union's development policy has become increasingly intertwined with other policy fields, which erodes the objectives of this policy domain in their own right. We specifically look at the linkages with migration policy, which has been a highly politicized EU policy domain. This article assesses the EU migration–development discursive linkages by addressing two related questions: how and to what extent has this nexus been politicized in Europe? We focus on two dimensions of politicization, namely salience and the polarization of opinions within the context of national parliaments. Through a conceptualization of argumentation lines this article sheds light on how the nexus has been translated into political communication by political actors. We conclude that there are varying, often opposing, argumentation lines on how the migration–development nexus is conceived – that are more complex than the distinction between ‘preventive’ and ‘restrictive’ approaches as identified in the literature on EU external migration policy.

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移民与发展联系的政治化：关于欧洲联盟移民信托基金的议会讨论

欧洲联盟的发展政策已与其他政策领域日益交织在一起，这本身就侵蚀了该政策领域的目标。我们专门研究与移民政策的联系，移民政策已成为高度政治化的欧盟政策领域。本文通过解决两个相关问题来评估欧盟移民与发展的话语联系：欧洲这种关系在何种程度上被政治化了？我们关注政治化的两个方面，即在各国议会背景下的显着性和意见分歧。通过对论据线的概念化，本文阐明了政治角色如何将联系转变为政治传播。我们得出的结论是，存在很多不同的，经常是相反的