The 2015 European migration crisis was caused by turmoil in Sub-Saharan Africa, civil war in Syria and civil unrest in Central Asia. This caused a massive influx of migrants into the European Union...Show moreThe 2015 European migration crisis was caused by turmoil in Sub-Saharan Africa, civil war in Syria and civil unrest in Central Asia. This caused a massive influx of migrants into the European Union. This influx of migrants fuelled the rise of radical right populist parties. In March 2016, a migration deal was struck between the European Union and Turkey to control this influx of migration. For this thesis, we want to examine to what extent rhetoric frames are used by the radical right populist parties within the Dutch Lower House by examining the European migration crisis. We will examine what kind of frames the spokespersons of the radical right populist parties used to highlight and how they use framing the context of the migration crisis. One would expect that the frames used by the popular parties in the Dutch Lower House change as the severity of the crisis changed and the consequences nationally shifts during the crisis. In order to do this, I will use a framing theory where we will be able to perform a qualitative discourse analysis that provides us with analysable results. As a specific case study, we will perform the discourse analysis of the parliamentary debates on the European migration crisis, as we would expect that radical right populist parties would make more prominent use of radical right populist frames as the migration crisis touches some of the core elements of radical right populist characteristics. We will analyse debates on migration before, during, and after the migration crisis. We will combine this framing theory with radical right populist theories to be able to identify the frames we have to analyse. Thereafter, we will use the transcripts of debates on migration, which we will analyse and finally we should be able to present some conclusions.Show less
