Polish plumbers and Romanian strawberry pickers: how the populist framing of EU migration impacts national policies

Sobis, Iwona; Junjan, Veronica; Vries, Michiel S. de

doi:10.1080/21632324.2015.1049021

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“…All of a sudden, Poles were depicted as taking jobs from British workers and as putting a strain on public services and welfare. While racist and xenophobic violence in the UK has been particularly noted following the Brexit vote, several studies show that Polish and other East European migrants -particularly Romanians -have always been subjected to discrimination, racialization and prejudice in the post-2004 accession period (Dawney, 2008;Kempny, 2011;Rzepnikowska, 2016Rzepnikowska, , 2017Sobis et al, 2016). A recent study by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (2019) shows how EU migrant labourers, particularly those from CEE member-states, continue to be seen and treated both as threats to Western European societies and as workers for whom exploitation and abuse is acceptable treatment.…”

Section: The Construction Of Cultural and Rhetorical Borders That Sep...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Securitizing mobility: Profiling ‘non-core’ Europeans

Woude

2023

Security Dialogue

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By combining securitization literature and literature from the field of border criminologies, this article reflects upon the ongoing securitization of intra-EU East–West mobility. The European Union is built on the inherent tension between the (economic) benefits and risks of one of its core principles: the principle of free movement. The two enlargements of the EU that led to the inclusion of several countries located in Central and Eastern Europe further increased this tension and led countries in Western Europe to officially reconstruct intra-Schengen borders. By looking into recent practices of (border) policing in the Netherlands, this article illustrates how CEE nationals are subjected not only to a securitized discourse around their mobility but also to securitized policing practices that aim to create a division between ‘core’ and ‘non-core’ Europeans while at the same time distinguishing between possible ‘crimmigrant’ others and bona fide travellers.

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Securitizing mobility: Profiling ‘non-core’ Europeans

Woude

2023

Security Dialogue

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“…Increased population mobility and migration are among the chief issues in the political arena in the EU member states. They frequently arouse vehement political and public reactions which are often politically affiliated with the populist agenda (Sobis et al 2016;Borriello and Brack 2019). Among others, the Schengen border regime became a subject of the unprecedented securitisation of migration (Vaughan-Williams 2015;Huysmans 2006;Bourbeau 2011;Bigo 2002; contra see Boswell 2007).…”

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Technocracy Revisited: the Polish Security Dispositif and Ukrainian Migration to Poland

Jaroszewicz¹,

Grzymski²

2021

JCER

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The article investigates the reaction of the Polish technocratic security dispositif to the arrival of Ukrainian migrants in Poland between 2014-2020. It contributes to the studies on securitisation and on technocracy by proposing to re-conceptualise research on the security practices towards migration, drawing upon the notions of a security dispositif and regime of practices. It is exemplified by migration from Ukraine to Poland. The paper distinguishes three regimes of practices within Polish migration control: state ignorance, technocratic governance and neighbourhood. Contrary to most securitisation practices on migration to the European Union from the South, there have been very few populist ‘speech acts’ by Polish political agents that would have positioned the migration from Ukraine as an existential threat. The article concludes that the Polish security dispositif mainly mobilised state ignorance as a resource in governing migration, since neither new legal nor institutional practices were adopted to address the increased arrivals of Ukrainians. Simultaneously, this was accompanied by an internal logic of technocratic governance and its ubiquitous strategic tendency to widen surveillance and control capacities towards foreigners. The article also highlights the role of local identity and the politics of memory in governing Ukrainian migration to Poland.

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“…They have political consequences and may not accurately reflect the migratory reality of intra-European movement -deliberately exaggerating some features while obscuring others. The balance reflects the continued dominance of the national paradigm, with myths such as the Polish plumber or Romanian strawberry picker tending to operate in the service of national interests (Sobis et al 2015).…”

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The Politics of Intra-European Movement

Balch

2018

IMISCOE Research Series

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Intra-European Movement in an Era of Crisis One need only consider the referendum that took place in Switzerland in 2014 on 'mass-immigration' and the referendum on membership of the EU in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016 to understand the significance of free movement. The topic stalks the present and future of European integration and has become central to relations between European states. It is no exaggeration to state that the context surrounding the European politics of mobility in the twenty-first century is one of heightened tension and a gathering sense of uncertainty and crisis surrounding the future prospects for freedom of movement (Guild et al. 2015). This might perhaps have surprised those drafting the early treaties who saw free movement as a necessary and relatively unproblematic cornerstone of regional integration. This chapter will explore and analyse the politicisation of free movement, offering a conceptualisation of these politics as an interaction, or dialectical conversation, between two competing languages or 'frames' through which intra-European movement is conceptualised: solidarity and hospitality. Aside from the theatrics of European Council meetings, and high stakes of national referenda, a key indicator of an increasing politicisation is the sensitivity and importance attached to what kind of language one uses to describe the international movement of persons within the European Union (see van Ostaijen 2016). The apparently pedantic insistence of the EU institutions to use the terms 'mobile EU citizen' and 'mobility' rather than migrant or migration is in fact an essential part of policy. It relates directly to the privileged status of European citizens within a formal system that guarantees free movement-they are supposed to be spared the

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Polish plumbers and Romanian strawberry pickers: how the populist framing of EU migration impacts national policies

Cited by 12 publications

References 27 publications

Securitizing mobility: Profiling ‘non-core’ Europeans

Securitizing mobility: Profiling ‘non-core’ Europeans

Technocracy Revisited: the Polish Security Dispositif and Ukrainian Migration to Poland

The Politics of Intra-European Movement

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