Who says what : members of the European Parliament and irregular migration in the parliamentary debates

KROTKÝ, Jan and Petr KANIOK. Who says what : members of the European Parliament and irregular migration in the parliamentary debates. European Security. Abingdon: Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis, 2021, vol. 30, No 2, p. 178-196. ISSN 0966-2839. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2020.1842362.

Basic information

• Original name: Who says what : members of the European Parliament and irregular migration in the parliamentary debates
• Authors: KROTKÝ, Jan (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Petr KANIOK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: European Security, Abingdon, Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis, 2021, 0966-2839.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 50601 Political science
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 1.508
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/21:00120815
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2020.1842362
• UT WoS: 000591020500001
• Keywords in English: European Parliament; irregular migration; securitisation; determinants; plenary debates
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

As migration and its securitisation change the political environment in the EU, we examine whether security speech acts (restrictive suggestions) prevail over human security speech acts (a liberal approach) towards irregular migration in the eighth (EU) parliamentary debates and which structural determinants predict delivering one or the other speech act. To achieve this goal, we first conducted a content analysis by which we selected (human) security speech acts; then, a set of binary logistic regressions followed. We explored whether, in the plenary debates, members of the European Parliament propose human security speech acts towards irregular migration rather than security speech acts. Thus, it seems that the attitudes of the members of the European Parliament differ in plenary sessions from the decision-making process. Based on the set of binary logistic regressions, we argue that the left-right division, attitudes toward European integration, and especially the division between the new and old member states are the crucial structural determinants for delivering (human) security speech acts in the plenary speeches.

Links

• MUNI/A/1044/2019, interní kód MU: Name: Perspektivy evropské integrace v kontextu globální politiky II

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A