This article focuses on the solidarity of EU member states with the so-called “front” country, Greece, which found itself during the migration crisis in 2015 and in the following years on the most burdened East-Mediterranean route, i.e. the route by sea from Turkey to Greece and onwards to various European Union countries. Refugees from Syria but also from Iraq and Afghanistan continue to arrive along this route. The destinations for boats carrying immigrants and refugees via Turkey to Greece are the islands in the Aegean Sea including the island of Lesbos whereon the infamous Moria camp still plays a special role. The island which hosts Moria is the subject of European solidarity research with Greece. The structure of this article consists of three parts. The first discusses the principle of solidarity which, like any community, lies at the heart of the European Union. Part Two deals with the migration crisis and its challenges regarding the solidarity of EU Member States from Greece. The third part focuses on the humanitarian consequences of the lack of solidarity between EU member states and Greece. The source material is scientific publications on the EU, information from EU portals and press agencies and their recordings of developments in Greece related to the influx of immigrants along the Eastern Mediterranean route along with the author’s own observations of the Moria camp during a visit at the end of November 2019. This article also partly refers to the new humanitarian challenges arising in the context of the situation of immigrants on their way to Europe during the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).
Tematem artykułu jest film Jill Godmilow „Far From Poland” analizowany w kontekście hybrydowej formy eseju filmowego. Film Godmilow został tu potraktowany jako case study dla refleksji nad funkcją materiału found footage i jego relacją do dyskursu historycznego. Michael Zryd w inspirującym artykule „Found Footage Film as Discursive Metahistory” pisze: „Artysta wykorzystujący ‘found footage’ poddaje krytycznemu badaniu historię stojącą za obrazem, dyskursywnie osadzoną w obrębie historii produkcji, cyrkulacji i konsumpcji”. Esej Godmilow może służyć jako paradygmatyczny przykład tezy Zryda. „Far From Poland” odwołuje się do konkretnych „faktów historycznych”, jednak nie jest komentarzem do ruchu „Solidarności” we wczesnych latach 80., ale subiektywnym notatnikiem i autoportretem reżyserki.
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The subject of the article is the film by Jill Godmilow “Far From Poland” analyzed in the context of the hybrid “essay film” form. Godmilow’s film has been used here as a case study for the reflection on the function of found footage method and its relation to the historical discourse. Michael Zryd, in his inspirational article Found Footage Film as Discursive Metahistory, writes: “The found footage artist critically investigates the history behind the image, discursively embedded within its history of production, circulation, and consumption”. Godmilow’s essay can serve as a paradigmatic example of Zryd’s thesis. Although “Far From Poland” appeals to concrete “historical facts”, it is not a commentary on Solidarity movement in the early 1980s, but a subjective notebook and a self-portrait of the film-maker.
The article deals with the concept of solidarity in the context of the current refugee crisis. Specifically, employing the Discourse-Historical Approach, it explores how solidarity is constructed in the discourse of the EU and in two member states, in Poland and in the Czech Republic which have been very critical of the EUropean approach to refugees from the beginning of the refugee crisis in 2015. As the findings suggest, relocations seem to be the only contested aspect of a more complex solution. On all other initiatives, there is an agreement between the EU and Poland and the Czech Republic even though the discourse might seem escalated at first sight. Moreover, drawing on the theoretical overview, the balancing of solidarity as a value with national interests and focus on security seems to be in line with the theoretical conceptualisation of international solidarity.
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