Dichotomous Rhetoric and Purposeful Silencing: Contradictions of Czech and Polish post-2015 Migration Policy vis-a-vis Immigration from South Asia

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2336825X241230834" target="_blank" >10.1177/2336825X241230834</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Dichotomous Rhetoric and Purposeful Silencing: Contradictions of Czech and Polish post-2015 Migration Policy vis-a-vis Immigration from South Asia

Original language description

Immigration became an especially thorny and publicly discussed issue with the so-called Refugee Crisis beginning in 2015. The stance of the Czech and Polish governments was dominated by strong anti-Muslim and anti-immigration rhetoric. Still, both countries have witnessed a steady increase in mainly short-term immigration from various Asian countries such as Bangladesh or Pakistan ever since. This paper analyses Czech and Polish migration policies against the backdrop of historically constructed notion of anti-illegal immigration policy (Walters, 2010), and category of temporary migration coupled with problematic nature of debt-financed migration in Asia. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Czechia and Poland (2018-2021), in-depth and semi-structured interviews with migration experts, academic and grey literature, official documents, and the method of Accidental ethnography, this paper argues that silencing of actual labor immigration in political communication while employing anti-migration rhetoric represents a discursive gap (Czaika and de Haas, 2013) typical for liberal democracies. It further concludes that rendering migrant labor as temporary commodity and turning a blind eye on recruitment of international migrants represent a continuity practice of migrant labor subordination within the nation-state, originating during colonialism and the advent of capitalism in the nineteenth century.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

New Perspectives

ISSN

2336-825X

e-ISSN

2336-8268

Volume of the periodical

32

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

Neuveden

UT code for WoS article

001173162900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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