Published February 9, 2024 | Version v1
Dataset Open

Parliamentary discourses on migratory tragedies at the border between Morocco and Spain in 2021 and 2022

Creators

  • 1. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
  • 2. ROR icon London School of Economics and Political Science

Description

This database was the empirical basis for the article: Olivas Osuna, José Javier (2024). A fence of opportunity: on how Vox radical right populist narratives frame and fuel crises in the border between Spain and Morocco. Journal of Politics and Language (accepted 8 February 2024). It uses MAXQDA format.

It includes the parliamentary speeches in Spain regarding two migratory incidents in Ceuta, May 2021, and Melilla, June 2022, when hundreds of people attempted to cross the fences that separate Morocco from Spain. Most of them were immediately deported, many injured, and several died.

In this database syntactic units —sentences—are individually coded whenever they match the criteria corresponding to any of populism/anti-populism or re-bordering/de-bordering codes defined previously. See Olivas Osuna and Rama (2021) and Olivas Osuna (2022) for reference to the methodology.

Overall, 2,014 segments were coded in a text corpus of 45 speeches and 78,870 words.

The analyses cover the speeches of all parliamentary groups in the plenary sessions that debated the two abovementioned border crises in the Spanish Congress of Deputies (sessions on 26 May 2021, 23 June 2021, 25 June 2021, 9 March 2022, 29 June 2022, 30 November 2022 and December 2022), as well as the speeches of Vox leaders in other Congress sessions related to migration —i.e., proposals to suspend the concession of visas to citizens of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania (15 February 2022), to enact a formal declaration of the migratory crisis as a National Security situation (17 May 2022), to take urgent measures to against irregular migration (21 June 2022), and to introduce stricter residency requisites (20 December 2022).

Coded speeches

Party

Speaker

Date

Word count

De-bordering references

Re-bordering references

Anti-populist references

Populist references

VOX

LÓPEZ ÁLVAREZ

23 May 2021

472

0

7

0

6

VOX

GIL LÁZARO

26 May 2021

335

0

6

0

9

VOX

ESPINOSA DE LOS MONTEROS

23 June 2021

1256

1

19

0

6

VOX

ORTEGA SMITH

25 June 2021

1159

7

13

0

12

VOX

CONTRERAS PELÁEZ

15 February 2022

1781

0

38

2

14

VOX

ORTEGA SMITH

9 March 2022

2475

3

38

0

26

VOX

GIL LÁZARO

9 March 2022

336

0

6

0

5

VOX

OLONA CHOCLÁN

17 March 2022

1232

0

31

0

20

VOX

DE MEER

21 June 2022

902

0

17

0

15

VOX

ORTEGA SMITH

30 November 2022

1803

1

36

1

25

VOX

DE MEER

20 December 2022

1697

2

24

0

21

PSOE

GRANDE MARLASKA

26 May 2021

886

5

6

2

1

PSOE

GONZÁLEZ LAYA

23 June 2021

451

0

1

2

2

PSOE

MARÍ KLOSE

23 June 2021

694

0

2

10

7

PSOE

GRANDE MARLASKA

25 June 2021

7147

10

18

9

3

PSOE

GRANDE MARLASKA

9 March 2022

5111

18

40

24

10

PSOE

GRANDE-MARLASKA

29 June 2022

418

3

8

1

0

PSOE

GRANDE MARLASKA

30 November 2022

8726

36

84

11

17

PSOE

SERRADA PARIENTE

30 November 2022

2287

5

16

3

13

PSOE

GRANDE MARLASKA

21 December 2022

2708

4

9

1

18

PP

GUTIÉRREZ DÍAZ

9 March 2022

2894

4

28

10

2

PP

GARCÍA DIEZ

23 June 2021

828

0

0

0

5

PP

GUTIÉRREZ DÍAZ

9 March 2022

2894

4

28

10

2

PP

VÁZQUEZ BLANCO

25 June 2021

857

1

11

2

9

PP

BERMÚDEZ DE CASTRO

29 June 2022

491

5

8

2

2

UPN/PP

GARCÍA ADANERO

30 November 2022

722

2

3

0

1

PP

VÁZQUEZ BLANCO

30 November 2022

2483

12

21

0

22

PP

VÁZQUEZ BLANCO

21 December 2022

2629

32

14

2

37

UP

PISARELLO PRADOS

23 June 2021

880

3

0

0

20

UP

CORTÉS GÓMEZ

25 June 2021

830

19

0

2

1

UP

SANTIAGO ROMERO

30 November 2022

2298

46

5

8

4

Cs

MARTÍNEZ GRANADOS

23 June 2021

789

3

0

4

2

Cs

GUTIERREZ VIVAS

25 June 2021

1232

5

3

3

4

Cs

GUTIÉRREZ VIVAS

30 November 2022

2581

2

20

6

9

ERC

CARVALHO DANTAS

26 May 2021

376

11

0

0

2

ERC

CARVAHLO DANTAS

25 June 2021

257

3

0

2

0

ERC

CARVALHO DANTAS

30 November 2022

2047

36

1

1

17

JXC

ILLAMOLA DAUSÀ

23 June 2021

844

0

0

2

7

JXC

ILLAMOLA DAUSÀ

30 November 2022

2590

38

3

0

11

PNV

LEGARDA URIARTE

30 November 2022

2094

18

10

0

0

EHB

IÑARRITU GARCÍA

25 June 2021

2024

9

0

1

1

EHB

IÑARRITU GARCÍA

30 November 2022

2439

32

8

1

2

CUP

VEHÍ CANTENYS

30 November 2022

679

12

1

0

10

F. Asturias

MARTÍNEZ OBLANCA

23 June 2021

757

0

8

3

5

F. Asturias

MARTÍNEZ OBLANCA

30 November 2022

479

1

4

0

7
     

78870

393

595

125

412

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Additional details

Additional titles

Subtitle (English)
45 MAXQDA Coded Speeches at the Spanish congress of deputies regarding incidents in Ceuta and Melilla
Alternative title (Spanish)
Discursos parlamentarios en relación a las tragedias en la frontera entre Marruecos y España en 2021 y 2022

Funding

Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Programa Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento PID2020-113182RA-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033
Comunidad de Madrid
Programa Atracción de Talento Investigador 2022-5A_SOC-24238

Dates

Created
2024-02-09

References

  • Olivas Osuna, J.J. (2022). Populism and Borders: Tools for Constructing "The People" and Legitimizing Exclusion, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 10.1080/08865655.2022.2085140, 1-24.
  • Olivas Osuna, J.J. & Rama, J. (2021). COVID-19: a political virus? VOX's populist discourse in times of crisis. Frontiers in Political Science, 10.3389/fpos.2021.678526/full, 1-17.
  • Olivas Osuna, José Javier (2024). A fence of opportunity: on how Vox radical right populist narratives frame and fuel crises in the border between Spain and Morocco. Journal of Politics and Language (accepted 8 February 2024)