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Querying the MIG IGRATION-POPULISM NEXUS towards effective ways of navigating the problem Poland & Greece in focus ANNA VISVIZI, Ph.D. Institute of East-Central Europe (IESW) Poland International workshop of Institute of European


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Querying the MIG IGRATION-POPULISM NEXUS

towards effective ways of navigating the problem – Poland & Greece in focus

ANNA VISVIZI, Ph.D.

Institute of East-Central Europe (IESW) Poland International workshop of Institute of European Democrats and Hungarian Europe Society V4 EUROPE – PIECES OF POPULISM IN EUROPE AND HOW TO OVERCOME THE CHALLENGE Thursday, 8 June 2017 Kaptár, 1065 Budapest, Révay köz 4., Hungary

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what drives th the MIGRATION-POPULISM NEXUS? th the in interlocking dim imensions of f th the ext xternal and domestic context

Role and position on the EU forum

Domestic economic developmen ts Maturity of the political scene & society Political cycle The geopolitical context

ideology culture history

Propensity to use the EU level forum for domestic policy purposes Sensitivity/vulnerability of the society to populism & demagogy Resilience of the political system/process/society to populism/demagogy Spill-overs and dynamics Enabling/constraining factors Media/media structure/quality of the popular discourse/niche media, incl. -- info-war/propaganda/trolling/deception

e.g.

  • - negative impact on a country’s image

abroad and so its political clout;

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Querying the mig igration-populism nexus:

  • - several levels of analysis
  • - several dimensions of the challenge

different policy measures & different types of action required

The government

The MPs

The society The media

The political parties

Civil society/NGOs

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The Domestic scene Key political parties & their stance towards migration

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The Domestic scene Key political parties & their stance towards migration

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Stance towards migration Poland: name of the party Greece: name of the party Stance towards migration

  • Law & Justice (PiS)

SYRIZA + +/- Civic Platform Independent Greeks

  • /+
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New Democracy

  • /+

+ The Modern (Nowoczesna) The River (POTAMI)

  • /+

PSL Farmer’s Party Communist Party (KKE) PASOK

  • /+

Golden Dawn

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Zooming-in & outstanding questions

  • Are there historical and/or cultural reasons explaining the differences why

migration is used as a resource of political competition?

  • PiS
  • SYRIZA
  • Golden Dawn
  • What’s the role of ideology in shaping the populism-migration nexus?
  • PiS
  • SYRIZA
  • Golden Dawn
  • Can the migration-populism nexus be instrumenalized in a positive manner?
  • Civic Platform
  • Nowoczesna (the Modern)
  • SYRIZA, ND, POTAMI

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Ways of addressing the problem/outstanding problems

POLAND

  • Tremendous work done by civil

society actors GREECE

  • Containment
  • Silencing
  • Tacit consensus: a democratic caucus

OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS & CHALLENGES

Anti-migrant rhetoric likely to re- surface driven by the political cycle Societies increasingly vulnerable Political scene still in search of a new identity Political scene fragmented, conditioned by external factors Externalization of the problem bears negative implications for the country’s image and political clout, e.g. at the EU forum

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Lo Looki king ah ahead: : tentativ ive su suggestio ions for r Polan land

  • At the conceptual level:
  • it is important to introduce a clear distinction between populism and demagogy;
  • i.e. frequently, devoid of an immediate political gain, references/critical stance to migration

are representative of demagogy rather than of populism;

  • At the empirical level:
  • greater emphasis on migration as a socially (unavoidable) phenomenon that concerns all of

us;

  • examples of successful projects (
  • ALIEN/Erasmus+ Project https://alien.pja.edu.pl/index.html/ →incl. a.o. Warsaw School of Economics
  • EUMIGRO/Jean Monnet Module www.eumigro.eu
  • At the political level:
  • it is necessary that all political parties get together and engage in true dialogue on migration;
  • if not, migration is bound to remain a resource of political competition at home and so the

populism-migration nexus will thrive;

  • consider the strategies of containment and silencing, successfully employed in Greece;
  • consider domestic alternatives to bringing the notion of migration to EU level discourses;

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Thank you for your attention

Anna Visvizi, Ph.D. Head of Research Institute of East-Central Europe (IESW) e-mail: avisvizi@gmail.com Twitter: @Avisvizi ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anna_Visvizi

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