1st Edition

Post-Truth Politics, Migration and Border Security Analysing Political Discourses in the EU

Edited By Karolina Czerska-Shaw, Maciej Stępka Copyright 2027
218 Pages
by Routledge

This book argues that post-truth discourses are deeply influencing political debates on migration and border security, blurring the line between fact-based debates and post-truth storylines. Offering a nuanced analysis of discourse within parliamentary debates on migration across multiple EU countries and the European Parliament, the book challenges conventional assumptions about the drivers of... Read more

1. Introducing Migration, Post-Truth Politics and Political Discourses

Karolina Czerska-Shaw, Maciej Stępka and Joanna Orzechowska-Wacławska

2. (Un)Becoming Naïve in European Parliamentary Debates: From Humanitarianism to Lies, Foolishness and Falsehoods 

Karolina Czerska-Shaw

3. Securitisation of Migration and Post-Truth in Polish Parliamentary Debates: The Case of the Polish-Belarusian Border Crisis

Maciej Stępka

4. How Far-Right Post-Truth Tropes Shifted Germany’s Migration Discourses Towards Exclusion and Securitisation: “There’s Nothing Wrong in Saying That!”

Ole Frahm

5. The Post-Factual Deterioration of Debates on Migration in the Austrian Parliament: Breaking the Centre

Ole Frahm

6. Feelings of Abandonment by the EU and Emergence of Post-Truth Narratives in Italian Parliamentary Debates: Analysing the Promise Gap

Mirela Marta Banach and Małgorzata Maria Fijał

7. When Post-Truth enters Parliament: Deconstructing Spanish Parliamentary Debates on Migration

Joanna Orzechowska-Wacławska

8. Conflicting Discourses on Migration in the French Parliament: Emotions and the Great Replacement Fear

Elodie Thevenin

9. The Policy Implications of Anti-Immigrant Discourses in Hungary Since 2015: How Politics Became Captive to Post Truth

Szabolcs Pogonyi

10. Conclusions: Post-truth Enabled and Constrained

Maciej Stępka and Karolina Czerska-Shaw

Biography

Karolina Czerska-Shaw is an assistant professor at the Department of Social Change Research in Europe at Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

Maciej Stępka is an assistant professor at the Department of Social Change Research in Europe at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Poland.