Post-Truth Politics, Migration and Border Security: Analysing Political Discourses in the EU

This book argues that post-truth discourses are deeply influencing political debates on migration and border security, blurring the line between fact-based debates and post-truth storylines.

Offering a nuanced analysis of discourse within parliamentary debates on migration across multiple EU countries and the European Parliament, the book challenges conventional assumptions about the drivers of post-truth, highlighting its role in legislative settings rather than solely in informalised public fora like social media. It illuminates the presence and use of post-truth narratives and the pervasiveness of post-factual politics at the centre of democratic policy-making processes, namely parliamentary debates, and highlights how certain post-truth structures become embedded into mainstream political debates and policies.

This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and professionals in migration policy/studies, political communication, communication studies, and more broadly to public policy, European studies, media studies, international relations and sociology.

Karolina Czerska-Shaw is an assistant professor at the Department of Social Change Research in Europe at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.

Maciej Stępka is an assistant professor at the Department of Social Change Research in Europe at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.