2022-09-22 09:00 - 10:30

  WPAiE: 205 D

[EN] Mapping Migration and Politics (in Times of Crises) - p. 1

Moderator/rzy:

profil photo: Katarzyna Górska

dr Katarzyna Górska
Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie

Absolwentka kulturoznawstwa międzynarodowego i studiów latynoamerykańskich (Uniwersytet Jagielloński 2009, 2010). Investigador afiliado, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (2013-2014). Dr kulturoznawstwa (Uniwersytet Jagielloński 2016). Zainteresowania badawcze związane z tematyką migracji latynoamerykańskich, procesów urbanizacji i kultury miasta, tożsamości kulturowej i procesów zmiany kulturowej.

dr Joanna Kulpińska
Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie

Adiunkt w Instytucie Amerykanistyki i Studiów Polonijnych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Główne zainteresowania badawcze dotyczą zjawiska międzynarodowych migracji, ze szczególnych uwzględnieniem wychodźstwa do Stanów Zjednoczonych, ich mechanizmów i historii migracji.

dr Anna Wyrwisz
Uniwersytet Jagielloński

Panel otwarty

Today migration in its multiple forms and dimensions poses a considerable challenge to people, states, and institutions around the world. Yet it is not always emphasized enough that migration is a highly political topic. Following the organizers' proposal of understanding contemporary global challenges, such as migration crises, through the prism of a dichotomous system of order and chaos, we would like to invite you to a joint discussion on the relationship between migration and politics in the context of crises. Crises may differ in nature, they may refer to Covid-19 pandemic, economic crisis or recession, political turbulence, conflict or violence, climate change, or in general unpredictable futures. Whatever the context is, uncertainty, inherent in the crises, surely impacts migration. We believe, an in-depth discussion of the following topics will allow us to better understand migration and contemporary societies in challenging times.

 

This panel will be centered around various political aspects of contemporary migration and crises, we would like to focus especially on:

 

  • Politics of migration & migration governance
  • Political and forced migration
  • Migration and refugee crisis in the contemporary world
  • Politics of minority migration
  • Climate migration and displacement
  • Art on migration policies; artistic visions of migration crises

 

We are looking forward to submissions from all scholars working on the above-mentioned themes, but also those whose research refers to topics beyond these areas of focus.

Referaty:

profil photo: Bartłomiej Różycki

dr Bartłomiej Różycki
Mazowiecka Uczelnia Publiczna w Płocku

National homogeneity as the component of anti-democratic narratives in 20th and 21st century Poland

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This presentation is going to discuss the importance of the concept of national homogeneity in Polish politics. It was formed mostly during the partition in 19th century and was used extensively by political actors in the interwar period, as a part of political, economic and cultural competition with the national minorities.

What is more interesting, the same concept was adopted also by the communist authorities after World War 2, as they understood that the initial priorities of their propaganda deterred the society from accepting the new regime and therefore searched for a narrative, where they would not be considered as servants of a foreign, hostile force, but as sovereign state leaders, who enjoy at least some level of legitimacy.

This narrative has also become the main tool of the populist movements after the democratic transition and is incorporated in the strategies of significant political actors today. Understanding the omnipresence of this concept in the contemporary Polish politics may allow to understand the nature of current political trends, identify dangers for the Polish democracy and help searching for solutions, which would limit their relevance in the future.

profil photo: Maciej Cesarz

dr hab. Maciej Cesarz
Uniwersytet Wrocławski

The growing interconnection between EU visa and readmission policy as a result of selectivity principle applied in border management

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The common policy on visas plays a crucial role in developing a General Approach to Migration and Mobility (GAMM) as it links the cooperation with third countries with the possibility to regulate access to the Schengen territory. This paper investigates how the EU visa policy has been influenced by the changing migratory dynamics towards the European Union by focusing on the latest reform and argues, that the new approach to conditionality applied by the EU has consolidated the intertwining between the EU visa policy and cooperation on readmission. Readmission constitutes an incentive of growing importance for the EU in order to offer visa facilitation regimes or specific visa waivers to nationals of third countries. However  new mechanism provides the European Commission with the mandate to propose specific restrictive measures related to visa processing and visa fee in case of a lack of cooperation especially on readmission. The paper examines legal, political and ethical concerns raised  by this mechanism and concludes that it may increase the selective or even discriminatory effects of the EU visa policy and impact the cooperation with third countries.

profil photo: Renata Stefańska

mgr Renata Stefańska
Uniwersytet Warszawski

Politicisation of immigration in Poland in the context of the migration crises in 2015 and 2021

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Migration crises foster increased interest in the issue of immigration and polarisation around this issue in the public sphere. Thus, they contribute to the politicisation of this phenomenon. However, counterintuitively, migration crises do not play a central role in this regard – the mere occurrence of critical events does not determine politicisation. The key is the role of political parties, which use crisis situations to achieve their goals.

The aim of this paper is to show the course of politicisation of immigration in Poland in the context of two migration crises, i.e. the so-called refugee crisis of 2015 and the border crisis of 2021. Particular attention will be paid to the role of political parties sitting in the parliament, thus exerting the greatest influence on the political debate. The role of political parties still raises many doubts and controversies among researchers. The main axis of the dispute runs between those who argue that the greatest influence on the politicisation of immigration is exerted by far-right parties, and those who point out that it is the mainstream parties – especially the centre-right and ruling parties – that play a leading role in this process. This paper will present the preliminary results of a study on this topic, based on the analysis of parliamentary debates in Poland in 2015 (European migration crisis) and 2021 (Polish-Belarusian border crisis).

In Poland, the process of politicisation of immigration by political parties seems to proceed in a different way than in Western European countries. For this reason, theoretical concepts explaining the situation in Western Europe do not fully apply to Poland. The main factors influencing this differentiation seem to be the narrower scope of the functioning of the ‘anti-populist’ norm in Poland, and the phase of the migration cycle of Poland, which, unlike Western European countries, has only recently been transforming into an immigration country.