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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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

New Perspectives

ISSN

2336-825X

e-ISSN

2336-8268

Svazek periodika

32

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

24

Strana od-do

Neuveden

Kód UT WoS článku

001173162900001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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