The aim of this paper is to analyse how migration and the critique of the EU are associated and instrumentally referred to in populist claims of members of parliament (MPs). [...] The paper contributes to a further understanding of the nature of PiS’s discursive opposition to migration and the EU in the Polish national parliament. [...] The results of the analysis show the reference to the people, the discursive representation of migrants and the opposition to the EU. [...] Even regarding the case of Biaĺowiez·a — a forest located on the border between Poland and Belarus that has been a site of contestation between the PiS government and the EU since 2016 — it has been argued that “the activities in the forest do not qualify as public safety measures, but rather as demonstrations of the reluctance of the current Polish government to observe the rule of law” (Dou- ma. [...] 2016) Additionally, PiS MPs further stressed the importance of Poland for the defence and for the future of the European Union, in which it ought to have the role of pro- tector against both migrants coming to alter Polish (Christian) values and European elites depicted as ill and suicidal.
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