Refugee Crisis and Divergences in Europe: The Russian Connection

Hasan Selçuk Türkmen
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Hasan Selçuk Türkmen: PhD Student, Area Studies, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara

No 2016/10, Working Papers from Maastricht School of Management

Abstract: This paper aims to provide an analysis of anti-refugee policies in Europe with a focus on Russian connection in this regard. Since the summer of 2015, refugees from Syria began to flow in very large numbers towards Europe. Concurrently, Russia began to develop a strictly anti-European discourse with reference to the refugee crisis. Hardline policies against refugees in Europe are prominently defended by Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban, who in his recent visit to Moscow reassured his support to the Russian discourse. Either with or without an ostensible motif of supporting the Russian discourse, Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi, Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras, and Polish prime minister Beata Szydło have been occasionally making remarks that harshly criticize refugee policies of the European Union. Divergent attitudes in Europe with regard to the refugee crisis necessarily coincides with the issues in Russian-European relations. Russian involvement, all in all, adds a new aspect to the refugee crisis, making its implications larger and more intricate. This paper focuses on this problematique and elaborates on it through discourse analysis of the statements of both Russian and European policymakers.

Pages: 9 pages
Date: 2016-08
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