Etapowość instrumentalizacji migrantów na przykładzie granicy z Białorusią – wyzwania współczesności

Abstract

The aim of this article is to point out the staged nature of the instrumentalization of migrants by analyzing and defining the process and using examples from the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. Accordingly, the following hypotheses are posited: H1-The instrumentalization of migrants is a step-by-step process aimed at achieving specific political, economic and military objectives or introducing destabilization in the target state. HK1-Target destabilization refers to an increase in the level of crime and terrorist threat, insecurity among the citizens of a country. The article consists of two parts. The first analyses the issue of the instrumentalization of migrants from the perspective of political science and administration, while the second analyses it from the perspective of legal science. The duality of research methods is acknowledged in the publication. In the course of preparing the article, desk research methods were applied. These include the method of analysis of written sources, which is a consequence of the application of qualitative content analysis. They allowed the collection of data necessary to solve the research problem, gathered in databases of the Border Guard, state statistical offices, data available in the literature on the subject, articles published in mass media.

Keywords

• instrumentalization of migrants
• destabilization
• eu external border
• belarus