The Poland-Belarus Frontier and the EU Hybrid Security

Abstract

below in englishThis thesis critically examines how EU Regulation 2024/1359 constructs the notion of “crisis” to securitize migration and legitimize derogations from standard asylum procedures. Drawing on critical discourse analysis and legal doctrinal analysis, and informed by legal exceptionalism, crisis and emergency governance, and securitization theory, it conceptualizes law as not merely a legal construction but also a discursive site where meanings of crisis and necessity are produced. The analysis shows how the regulation frames migration as a security issue requiring exceptional responses, thereby facilitating procedural deviations and embedding emergency governance within EU asylum law. It argues that such discourse contributes to the normalization of exceptional measures, blurring the boundary between ordinary and emergency rule in the Common European Asylum System.