They came. Will they stay? Selected narrations on Ukrainians in Poland and the concept of moral panic Cover Image

Przyszli. Czy zostaną? Wybrane narracje o Ukraińcach w Polsce a koncepcja paniki moralnej
They came. Will they stay? Selected narrations on Ukrainians in Poland and the concept of moral panic

Author(s): Grzegorz Demel
Subject(s): Social history, Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields, Russian Aggression against Ukraine
Published by: Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych UW
Keywords: moral panic; social inclusion and exclusion; Ukrainian refugees in Poland; opinion forming weeklies; framing;

Summary/Abstract: The article investigates framing of the presence of Ukrainian war refugees and Ukrainian immigrants in Poland in Polish public debate on the empirical basis of selected leading opinion forming weeklies. The action “Stop of Ukrainisation of Poland” launched by far right Konfederacja Korony Polskiej party is considered as an attempt to launch moral panic. The author examines the mainstream media reactions on this activity and concludes (also using results of public opinion surveys), that, so far, neither classic, nor polarizing moral panic has begun. The important part of the analysis is an overview of the visons of further co-existence of Poles and Ukrainians in Poland, as the competing postulates regarding to areas of social inclusion and exclusion are present in the analyzed material.

  • Issue Year: 68/2023
  • Issue No: 68
  • Page Range: 271-296
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Polish