The Discourse of Solidarity and the European Migrant Crisis

• Authors: Grosse Tomasz Grzegorz , Hetnarowicz Joanna

Abstracts

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This study focuses on analysis of the discourse of solidarity during the current migrant crisis, with special attention paid to the second half of 2015 and the first months of 2016. We start by looking for the sources of the concept of solidarity in the writings of the founding fathers of the European Union and in the existing EU treaties. We then try to decide to what extent the political narratives of the crisis are based on these sources and in what ways they deviate from them or use them in a superficial way. Finally, we verify our research assumptions and offer an overview of the academic debate on the subject.

Keywords

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Solidarity; European Union; Migrant crisis; Founding fathers

• Publisher: Centre for Europe, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Yearbook of Polish European Studies
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 19
• Pages: 35-61

Contributors

author

Grosse Tomasz Grzegorz

• University of Warsaw, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies

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Hetnarowicz Joanna

• University of Warsaw, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies

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