Creating the Centre? Immigration Discourse in Poland and Its Effects
Creating the Centre? Immigration Discourse in Poland and Its Effects

Summary/Abstract: During last three years intensive migration discourse in Poland can beobserved. It is connected with migration crisis in Europe in combination with newpolitical reality in Polish establishment (so-called “good change” towards conservative,Eurosceptic and refugees-reluctant governance). This hard confusion of on-goingprocesses leads to emerge many questions about the discourse itself: how do we speakabout migrations in Poland these days? What kind of discourse is it? How can it bedescribed – as rational, cohesive or rather chaotic, inconsistent? What language does ituse, who participates in it and why? What does it bring to Polish social reality, fromwhich and in which it grows? The article tries to answer these questions, taking intoaccount central-periphery perspective. From this point of view the new question appears,if and how the migration discourse can influence the change of roles, boundaries, and relations between the centre and (semi-) peripheries from the perspective of players rooted in both these spaces. Hence, this sketchy theoretical analyse, as initial assumption to in-depth further research of language issues, is focus on the idea of creation the “new”centre by dominant discursive practice. It seems however the “real” (western) centre reactions show the opposite effect: the (semi-)periphery strengthens its previous position and there will be no change in system frontiers.

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