DOI: 10.46340/eppd.2024.11.5.5
Iryna Matsyshyna, D.Sc. in Political Science
Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University, Ukraine
How to cite: Matsyshyna, I. (2024). Contemporary Migration in the Times of Far-Right. Evropský politický a právní diskurz, 11, 5, 43-52. https://doi.org/10.46340/eppd.2024.11.5.5
Abstract
The modern trend of the emergence of far-right movements is related not only to countries with totalitarian regimes. Recent elections have demonstrated that countries with democratic systems today have a demand for the radicalization of politics. Socio-economic factors in the context of migration policy are not fully implemented by liberal tools, which have proven inadequate in regulating social development in countries open to migrants. This creates a values gap regarding equality between the status of the local population and that of state-supported migrants.
On the other hand, Russia’s information policy deliberately creates a negative image of Ukrainian refugees, exporting a culture of hatred towards national minorities and migrants. This article examines how this impacts the formulation of a unified European policy strategy. The research hypothesis posits that the threat posed by the trend towards far-right movements is not primarily a result of migration policy, which has been reloaded following Russia’s large-scale war against Ukraine. Rather, it is a reaction to the formation of a geopolitical international order through liberal tools that have proven incapable of addressing the challenges of racism and nationalism in European countries.
Issues of social protection from poverty and unemployment, the devaluation of multiculturalism, the artificiality of inclusivity, political corruption, and populism have prompted a reevaluation of liberal ideas, which have taken on new, decisive characteristics in neoliberalism. However, this has not stopped racist, national, and religious intolerance, which, under migration policies aimed at supporting and protecting migrants, has merely become a matter of time before open far-right calls erupt.
Analysis of resolutions and votes in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has allowed for the establishment of a certain voting logic on migration issues in relation to the internal political climate of countries that refrain from integrating migrants into their national space. This may indicate that with the rise of far-right sentiments, such trends could increase.
Keywords: far-right, migrants, migration policy, PACE, resolutions, war of Russia against Ukraine.
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