TY - T1 - The Finnish National Report on the Politicization of the “Refugee Crisis” in Public Debate SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/303382 T3 - CEASEVAL Research on the Common European Asylum System A1 - Pyrhönen, Niko; Wahlbeck, Östen Ragnar A2 - PB - Technische Universität Chemnitz Y1 - 2018 LA - eng AB - This report addresses the politicization of common European policy for refugee relocation, with particular focus on the question of responsibility for the so-called “refugee crisis”. As Finland faced the tenfold increase in the annual number of asylum seekers in 2015, public debate on the topic was rapidly electrified. The media attention culminated in September, when Finland decided as the only member state to abstain from voting on the issue of relocation. The decision was widely considered to... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 5141 Sociology; politicization; media debate; refugees; Asylum seekers; politicisation; public opinion; 517 Political science; politicization; CEAS; politicisation; media; migration; refugee crisis; EU; policy N1 - PP - ER -