Human rights violations have occurred in Europe during the European migrant crisis. This master thesis will argue that the violations of migrants’ rights have been conditioned by the strong anti-immigration and many times even xenophobic rhetoric used primarily by the right-wing political parties in several EU countries. The use of violence has become legitimate on the state level as countries considered the massive inflow of migrants to Europe as a security threat for them. Due to the lack of common EU migration policies, countries acted individually which had further impact on the development of the situation.