Migration as a Domain of Rule:
Changing Rationalities in Polish Migration Strategies
(2012–2024)
1
Katedra Metodologii Badań nad
Polityką, Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Publication date: 2025-12-02
Studia Politologiczne 2025;78
KEYWORDS
governmentalitygovernmental rationalityPoland’s migration policystrategicdiscoursemigration strategies
ABSTRACT
The article analyzes Poland’s migration strategies from 2012, 2020, and 2024 as
instruments for producing governmental rationalities. Drawing on Bacchi’s WPR method
and Foucault’s governmentality approach, it highlights the increasing concentration of
power rationalities. It shows how their shifting configurations shape representations
of migrants and policy justifications. The analysis reveals contradictions and displacements
in the logic of state migration governance across neoliberal, technocratic, securitarian,
sovereign, humanitarian, assimilationist, and biopolitical rationalities.
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