• A rather wild imagination: who is and who is not a migrant in the Czech media and society? 

      Bartoszewicz, Monika Gabriela; Eibl, Otto (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-06)
      This paper focuses on migrants and migration in the context of the Czech Republic, an ethnically and nationally homogeneous country without significant migration experience. Despite this fact, the issue of migration became very prominent in 2015 and has been an integral part of Czech political and public discourse since then. Although the topic has attracted scholarly interest, but the reflection ...
    • Securitising the Future: Dystopian Migration Discourses in Poland and the Czech Republic 

      Bartoszewicz, Monika Gabriela; Eibl, Otto; El Ghamari, Magdalena (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-09)
      This paper presents findings of a comparative study carried out in Poland and the Czech Republic, which analysed the societal attitudes towards migration and migrants in Europe. Our research shows that the reaction to migration in Poland and the Czech Republic constitutes a reversed (bottom up) securitisation. Moreover, contrary to the majority of security challenges where the immediate threats are ...