Solidarität mit Menschen auf der Flucht: Ein Vergleich des EU-Diskurses 2015 und 2022

Unlike in the so-called “Refugee crisis” 2015, the EU has so far reacted to Refugees from Ukraine collectively with unprecedented solidarity and activated the Temporary Protection Directive 2001/55/EC for the first time ever. TPD was adopted in 2001 as a response to the refugees fleeing the 1990s Yugoslavian wars into Central and Western Europe. TPD establishes minimum stand-ards in the event of a “mass influx” and grants refugees, if activated, temporary protection. This, however, has neither happened then nor in 2015. When compared to 2015, the discourse and pol-icy responses to refugees fleeing from Ukraine mark a puzzling change in the EU’s reaction to refugee movements. To better understand the unexpected change in the EU’s discourse and poli-cy responses to mass influxes, this thesis compares the EU’s justification discourse to mass in-fluxes in 2015 and 2022 and examines explanations of the different reactions of EU actors (Coun-cil and Member States, Commission, Parliament). To do so, it draws on scholarship from critical migration studies and critical humanitarianism as well as scholarship on EU migration govern-ance. To analyse the discourse and justification of policy responses, I deploy an innovative Dis-course Network Analysis. This method is well suited as it enables me to analyse the EU’s policy framing around mass influxes and policy responses systematically.:Einführung Forschungsfrage Forschungsansatz Analyse Ergebniss