Securitization of the Migration Crisis and Islamophobic Rhetoric: The 2016 Slovak Parliamentary Elections as a Case Study

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Journal of Nationalism Memory and Language Politics Pub Date : 2018-12-01 DOI:10.2478/jnmlp-2018-0010

Ľubomír Zvada

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Abstract This paper focuses on the migration crisis from the perspective of Slovakia while examining the impact of the crisis on the last parliamentary elections in 2016. The migration/refugee crisis that started in 2015 played a significant role during the pre-electoral discourse and political campaigns. This paper has two main goals. The primarily goal is to apply the theory of securitization as proposed by the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute on the case study of Slovakia, and the secondary goal is to analyze the 2016 Slovak general elections. In here, I describe the securitization processes, actors, and other components of the case. Subsequently, I focus on a key element of this theory that is linked to the speech act. I evaluate Islamophobia manifestations in speech act and political manifesto of Slovak political parties. My source base includes the rhetoric of nationalist political parties such as Direction-SD (Smer-SD), Slovak National Party (Slovenská národná strana), We Are Family-Boris Kollár (Sme Rodina-Boris Kollár), and Kotleba-People’ Party Our Slovakia (Kotleba-Ľudová strana Naše Slovensko), all of which often apply anti-Muslim and anti-Islam rhetoric.

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移民危机和伊斯兰恐惧症言论的证券化:2016年斯洛伐克议会选举为例研究

本文从斯洛伐克的角度关注移民危机，同时研究危机对2016年最后一次议会选举的影响。2015年开始的移民/难民危机在选举前的话语和政治竞选中发挥了重要作用。本文有两个主要目标。主要目标是将哥本哈根和平研究所提出的证券化理论应用于斯洛伐克的案例研究，次要目标是分析2016年斯洛伐克大选。在这里，我将描述证券化过程、参与者和案例的其他组成部分。随后，我将重点关注该理论中与言语行为相关的一个关键要素。我评估了伊斯兰恐惧症在斯洛伐克政党的言论行为和政治宣言中的表现。我的资料来源包括民族主义政党的言论，如方向党(Smer-SD)、斯洛伐克民族党(slovensk národná strana)、我们是一家-鲍里斯Kollár (Sme Rodina-Boris Kollár)和人民党我们的斯洛伐克(Kotleba-Ľudová strana Naše Slovensko)，所有这些政党都经常使用反穆斯林和反伊斯兰教的言论。

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期刊介绍： Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics is a peer-reviewed journal published by De Gruyter on behalf of the Charles University. It is committed to exploring divergent scholarly opinions, research and theories of current international academic experts, and is a forum for discussion and hopes to encourage free-thinking and debate among academics, young researchers and professionals over issues of importance to the politics of identity and memory as well as the political dimensions of language policy in the 20th and 21st centuries. The journal is indexed with and included in Google Scholar, EBSCO, CEEOL and SCOPUS. We encourage research articles that employ qualitative or quantitative methodologies as well as empirical historical analyses regarding, but not limited to, the following issues: -Trends in nationalist development, whether historical or contemporary -Policies regarding national and international institutions of memory as well as investigations into the creation and/or dissemination of cultural memory -The implementation and political repercussions of language policies in various regional and global contexts -The formation, cohesion and perseverance of national or regional identity along with the relationships between minority and majority populations -The role ethnicity plays in nationalism and national identity -How the issue of victimhood contributes to national or regional self-perception -Priority is given to issues pertaining to the 20th and 21st century political developments While our focus is on empirical articles, our scope remains open to exceptional theoretical works (especially if they incorporate empirical research), book reviews and translations.