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Państwa skandynawskie wobec kryzysu migracyjnego w Unii Europejskiej
The Scandinavian States Facing the Migration Crisis in the European Union

The Scandinavian States Facing the Migration Crisis in the European Union

Author(s): Artur Gruszczak
Subject(s): Migration Studies, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Centrum Europejskie Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Scandinavia; Denmark; Sweden; Norway; Security; Migration; Refugees; Populism; Nationalism;Europeanization;

Summary/Abstract: The migration crisis in the European Union brought about serious repercussions for immigration policies of the Scandinavian countries. Their governments, under pressure from nationalist, populist and anti-immigration political parties and movements, allowed for renationalisation of security mechanisms as a method of risk management in the face of the external migratory pressure. Referring to the concepts of Beck and Fode,this author puts forward a thesis that security renationalisation has been the result of ineffectiveness of compensatory mechanisms introduced to the internal policies of the Scandinavian countries as a result of Europeanisation of their security policies as well as a cosmopolitan approach to global migration governance. The arguments refer to the evolution of the party systems, anti-immigration changes in domestic laws of these countries and cultural tensions.

  • Issue Year: 22/2018
  • Issue No: 3 (87)
  • Page Range: 75-98
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: English, Polish