ODTWARZANIE BARIER MIGRACYJNYCH W WARUNKACH KRYZYSU EKONOMICZNEGO

The article concentrates on the consequences of the economic crisis from the perspective of immigrants and the host country’s policy. An economic slump directly translates not only into a decrease in the size of the inflow of immigrants, but also into a change in the way they function in the host country. To a considerable extent it deepens the state of immigrants’ exclusion, in accordance with the concept of M. Foucault, in four overlapping dimensions embracing the economic, social-cultural, and political sphere. In the sphere of socio-political activities it also leads to the reestablishment of schemes based on the dichotomy “us vs. them (strangers)”. According to the political tactics of “dangerization” (see Bauman) this induces the treatment of immigrants in the categories of threat to economic and cultural security. A constant, increasing growth and visible presence of the immigrant population in socio-cultural space and, simultaneously, their limited tendency to integrate constitute a challenge for immigration policy.