The Everyday Politics of Migration Crisis in Poland Between Nationalism, Fear and Empathy /

• Main Author: Jaskulowski, Krzysztof (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Emigration and immigration.; Citizenship-Sociological aspects.; Racism in the social sciences.; Europe-Politics and government.; Ethnography.; Discourse analysis.; Migration.; Sociology of Citizenship.; Sociology of Racism.; European Politics.; Discourse Analysis.

This book explores attitudes towards migrants and refugees from North Africa and the Middle East during the so-called migration crisis in 2015-2016 in Poland. Beginning with an examination of Polish government policy and the discursive construction of refugees in the media, politics and popular cult...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter. 1. Introduction: Setting the agenda
• Chapter 2. Preliminaries: nationalism without nations
• Chapter 3. The Politics of the "migration crisis" in Poland
• Chapter 4. Understanding Polishness
• Chapter 5. The Nation under threat
• Chapter 6. Against the currents: refugees welcome
• Chapter 7. Between fear and empathy
• Chapter 8. Conclusions.