This paper presents findings of a comparative study carried out in Poland and the Czech
Republic, which analysed the societal attitudes towards migration and migrants in Europe …

The war in Ukraine seems to have positively changed the attitude toward the critical societal
topic of migration in Europe–at least towards refugees from Ukraine. We investigate whether …

With a focus on the post‐2015 period in the western and northern regions of Europe, the
research examined here shows prominent media discourses of othering, threat and …

Occupational science literature increasingly addresses occupations classified as illegal. We
examine legal sanctioning, globally and locally, of two occupations: i) search and rescue …

Purpose Without a doubt, COVID-19 is a disruptive event that one may not consider before it
becomes a global pandemic. This study aims to examine the firm's risk preference …

Abstract Poland and the Czech Republic shifted their approach towards refugees during the
2022 Russian invasion when the assistance to Ukrainian refugees became 'a national task' …

The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine forced more than eight million Ukrainians to seek
refuge outside their home country. This study analyzed the press coverage of displaced …

Migration remains a highly polarising issue in the European Union (EU). The presence of
two deeply opposing camps–pro-versus anti-migration–may vary with context. Zooming in …

Systematic cross-national analyses of political debates on the admission of refugees and
asylum seekers require a theoretically coherent and empirically comprehensive typology of …

The present paper aims at reconstructing, analyzing, and explaining the framing of the
situation at the Polish-Belarusian border in 2021 and early 2022 by Poland's two most …