Once again, the issue of migration is used as a tool to polarize Polish society during political campaigns before Parliamentary elections. In 2015 Law and Justice created in the public discourse a powerful negative picture of refugees coming to Europe. Jarosław Kaczyński has referred to migrants as a threat not only to Polish culture but also as carriers of diseases, gems, and parasites during a political campaign 2015.

This year Polish government uses migrants as a political weapon. The Spokesman of the Government announced that a referendum on the relocation of migrants to Poland would be held. The referendum is a Polish reply to an agreement reached by EU Member States on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum.

Dr Monika Nowicka,Collegium Civitas Sociology Department, Monika.Nowicka@civitas.edu.pl

21.06.2023