Qualitative Coding Data for 'Austerity and the Politics of Insecurity: Immigration, Economic Vulnerability, and Political Realignment in Coastal Kent – An Arendtian Lens'

This repository contains the supplementary qualitative coding datasets for the thesis: Austerity and the Politics of Insecurity: Immigration, Economic Vulnerability, and Political Realignment in Coastal Kent – An Arendtian Lens. The data maps the political articulation of structural decline and border insecurity by Members of Parliament (MPs) representing coastal Kent constituencies. The corpus consists of parliamentary transcripts extracted from Hansard, covering both Commons Chamber and Westminster Hall debates between 7 June 2001 and 31 December 2025. Speeches were filtered using a bounded set of keywords (immigration, asylum, border, refugee, crossings, Channel, boat) to capture the evolution of political rhetoric across the pre-austerity and post-austerity periods. The repository includes two complementary datasets that support the thematic analysis and theoretical conclusions of the thesis: Dataset A: Longitudinal Thematic Coding Matrix for Parliamentary Debates (2001–2025)This dataset tracks the temporal evolution of immigration rhetoric over two decades. It provides a year-by-year breakdown of specific discursive codes grouped into five overarching themes (e.g., structural pressure, loss of border control, humanitarian concern). This matrix demonstrates how political framing shifted over time, notably tracking the post-2010 expansion of 'crisis' articulation, the criminalisation of small boat crossings, and narratives of systemic state failure in the austerity era. Dataset B: Distribution of Parliamentary Contributions by Constituency, MP, and Party (2001–2025) This dataset details the geographical and partisan distribution of the coded parliamentary speeches. It provides a chronological record of which MPs engaged with the target debates, tracking contributions across parliamentary terms. This data establishes the hyper-localised nature of the discourse, confirming the cross-party persistence of immigration rhetoric and highlighting constituencies such as Dover and Deal as the primary epicentres for the political translation of structural insecurity.本仓库收录对应学位论文的补充定性编码数据集，论文题为《紧缩政策与不安全政治：肯特沿海地区的移民、经济脆弱性与政治重组——基于阿伦特式视角》。 本数据集呈现了代表肯特沿海选区的议员（Members of Parliament, MPs）就结构性衰退与边境不安全问题所进行的政治表述。该语料库涵盖2001年6月7日至2025年12月31日期间下议院议事厅与威斯敏斯特厅的所有议会辩论实录，均提取自《汉萨德议会辩论记录》（Hansard）。研究人员通过一组限定关键词（immigration、asylum、border、refugee、crossings、Channel、boat）对发言内容进行筛选，以捕捉紧缩政策前与紧缩政策后两个时期政治修辞的演变脉络。 本仓库包含两组互补数据集，用于支撑本学位论文的主题分析与理论结论： 数据集A：2001-2025年议会辩论纵向主题编码矩阵（Longitudinal Thematic Coding Matrix for Parliamentary Debates (2001–2025)）。本数据集追踪二十年间移民修辞的时间演变轨迹，按年度梳理了归为五大核心主题的具体话语编码（如结构性压力、边境管控失效、人道主义关切）。该矩阵展现了政治框架随时间的变迁轨迹，尤其追踪了2010年后“危机”表述的扩张、小型船只越境行为的刑事化倾向，以及紧缩时代下国家系统性失灵的叙事。 数据集B：2001-2025年按选区、议员与党派划分的议会发言分布情况（Distribution of Parliamentary Contributions by Constituency, MP, and Party (2001–2025)）。本数据集详细呈现了经编码的议会发言的地理与党派分布特征，按时间顺序记录了参与目标辩论的议员信息，并追踪了各议会任期内的发言情况。该数据证实了该话语的超本地化特征，验证了跨党派持续使用移民修辞的现象，并凸显了多佛尔（Dover）与迪尔（Deal）等选区作为结构性不安全问题政治转化的核心策源地。