CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Kostolny, Jakub |
|---|---|
| Title | Understanding European Solidarity Through Political Discourse in Slovakia |
| Summary | The European Union proposal to relocate refugees based on quotas in 2015 brought turmoil into the debates about how to react to the migration crisis. The idea of solidarity, with the refugees and among EU member states became one of the central topics. In Slovakia, these debates took place during the ongoing political campaign leading up to the parliamentary election in March 2016. The aim of this thesis is to study the notion of solidarity in the Slovak political discourse with regards to the refugee quota policy proposal, and to theorize how and when solidarity discourses are deployed. The thesis relies on the conceptual framework developed by Vivien Schmidt, discourse institutionalism, which operates with ideas, actors, interactions and institutional context. Based on the quantitative text analysis and qualitative discourse analysis of a selection of media articles, findings suggest that politicians in Slovakia frame the notion of solidarity instrumentally as a tool rather than a value. They use the term solidarity to argue both for or against accepting the quotas. This thesis contributes to debates about how politicians use topics, such as refugee quotas, strategically in periods of crisis. |
| Supervisor | Kovács, Borbála |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/kostolny_jakub.pdf |
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