Securitization

The chapter analyses the securitization discourses of crucial members of the Czech government vis-à-vis the migration crisis. The research examined 93 speech acts referring to migration. One-quarter of the total speech acts contained the securitization discourse. Regarding the securitization discourses concerning roles and ideologies, the research detected a clear trend, namely that selected securitization discourses reflected the Europeanist Reformer position. Czech politicians mainly refused the EU relocation quotas since accepting them would threaten Czech sovereignty, and called for a reform of the EU migration framework.