Overview
- Offers a major contribution to better understanding states’ rationale for contesting future migration crises
- Proposes a new method for assessing the variables in the security-humanitarian relationship
- Shows how the perception of costs of providing refugee protection differ depending on the state’s identity
Part of the book series: Mobility & Politics (MPP)
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During the 2015 and 2016 refugee crisis the EU called on the Member States to engage in protection burden-sharing. This proposal found strong opposition from some of the Visegrad Group countries, including Poland, which expressed their reluctance to the relocation scheme securitizing the political narrative towards refugees. On the contrary, in 2022, during the Russian military aggression against Ukraine, Poland strengthened an “open door policy”, showing a humanitarian approach towards Ukrainian refugees.
This book uses a public goods theoretical framework to examine the various public goods characteristics of refugee protection in such scenarios. It is argued that the publicness and character of refugee protection is socially shaped by norms and identities. States perceive refugee protection, including benefits and costs, in different ways. The author focuses his analysis on the security/humanitarian dichotomy in states’ perceptions of refugees to investigate the accompanying vision of the inherent costs and benefits. The conceptual part of the book provides conclusive support of an alternative constructivist mode in public goods theory for understanding refugee protection burden-sharing.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contesting Migration Crises in Central Eastern Europe
Book Subtitle: A Political Economy Approach to Poland’s Responses Towards Refugee Protection Provision
Authors: Diego Caballero-Vélez
Series Title: Mobility & Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44037-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44036-6Published: 31 January 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44039-7Published: 01 February 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44037-3Published: 30 January 2024
Series ISSN: 2731-3867
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3875
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 163
Topics: Migration, Political Science, International Relations, Political Economy/Economic Systems