At the 15th Conference of the Committee for Migration Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jan Bazyli Klakla presented the paper “Contested Polish-German Cooperation in Migration Governance,” co-authored with Oskar Chmiel.
The presentation started from a paradox of cooperation on migration: mechanisms designed to facilitate responsibility-sharing – such as relocation, the Dublin procedures, or the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum – may become framed in domestic political debates as symbols of lost sovereignty, an unfair distribution of costs, or security threats.
The presentation:
discussed preliminary findings from a thematic review of 99 publications;
identified a research gap concerning mutual and changing representations of Poland and Germany as neighbours and partners;
outlined an analysis of Polish and German narratives between 2023 and 2026, drawing on the Narrative Policy Framework and a continuum of representations of the neighbouring country – from partner to a source of political or security risk.
The research examines how domestic political narratives and the securitisation of migration shape Polish-German and European cooperation in the fields of migration and security.
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