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Investigate how public discourse operationalizes identity politics and collective memory to construct refugees as societal threats and redefine national belonging in Poland.

March 18, 2021Political GeographyOpen Access

Operationalising memory and identity politics to influence public opinion of refugees: A snapshot from Poland

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Investigate how public discourse operationalizes identity politics and collective memory to construct refugees as societal threats and redefine national belonging in Poland.
Conducted N=200 short qualitative interviews in Wrocław, Poland, during the 2017 refugee crisis.
Applied a theoretical framework of memory and identity politics to evaluate perceptions of cultural diversity, territorial threat, and national belonging.
Public discourse successfully operationalized historical narratives of conflict, foreign occupation, and territorial incursion to depict refugees as existential threats to Polish society.
The strategic dissemination of threat and fear disrupted traditional notions of belonging and reinforced an exclusionary, closed national identity that prevented engagement with cultural diversity.

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Qualitative interview study reveals how political rhetoric of threat shapes exclusionary attitudes toward refugees in Poland, highlighting how memory and identity politics enforce national closure.

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Drozdzewski et al. (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1d48b41c2cbcb15c5e11a7 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102366

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Qualitative interview study reveals how political rhetoric of threat shapes exclusionary attitudes toward refugees in Poland, highlighting how memory and identity politics enforce national closure.

Operationalising memory and identity politics to influence public opinion of refugees: A snapshot from Poland

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Operationalising memory and identity politics to influence public opinion of refugees: A snapshot from Poland

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