Acting Alone Together: Reconfiguration of the Pro-Migrant and Refugee Activists’ Arena in Poland
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RIS BIB ENDNOTEActing Alone Together: Reconfiguration of the Pro-Migrant and Refugee Activists’ Arena in Poland
Publication date: 30.06.2023
Teoria Polityki, 2023, No. 7/2023, pp. 193 - 213
https://doi.org/10.4467/25440845TP.23.010.17523Authors
Acting Alone Together: Reconfiguration of the Pro-Migrant and Refugee Activists’ Arena in Poland
The sphere of grassroots and civil activism became highly politicized before the 2015 elections. The introduction of the new policies has resulted in higher levels of mobilizations, both supporting and resisting the new policies of the PiS government. For instance, Poland has switched from a country with the highest acceptance rate for refugees in the EU to the one with the lowest rate within around a year sparking a number of anti-migrant and anti-refugee mobilizations and at the same time fueled the growth of initiatives opposing the trend. The narrative about masses of refugees in Poland and at its borders threatening various aspects of Polish culture, civilization, and identity started to keep heat in the bed and have provoked numerous intended and unintended consequences, political and social, so as further campaigns against LGBT community. In this paper I reflect on the development of the anti-fascist and anti-racist movements in Poland in the face of structural changes that are a result of the political shift initiated in 2015.
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Acting Alone Together: Reconfiguration of the Pro-Migrant and Refugee Activists’ Arena in Poland
Acting Alone Together: Reconfiguration of the Pro-Migrant and Refugee Activists’ Arena in Poland
University of Gdańsk
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