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A Post-Colonial Enquiry into Europe’s Debt and Migration CrisisHuman Migration Appearing as Crisis of Europe

A Post-Colonial Enquiry into Europe’s Debt and Migration Crisis: Human Migration Appearing as... [This chapter discusses the post-colonial political, ideological, and discursive context in which migration appears as a “crisis” for Europe. Europe achieved continental unification through economic means, liberal constitutionalism, and currency union. It sets goals of peace and security that encouraged everyone to be a liberal with unfettered freedom to access the market and, on the other hand, allowed the European Union to follow interventionist policies near abroad. The consequences of the union are to be found in Europe’s restrictive and contradictory policies and programmes relating to immigration and refugee protection. European migration crisis originates from this. This chapter concludes by way of suggesting that neoliberalism’s victory in Europe may have come at a great cost. As the Paris and Brussels killings suggested, even though this victory may be pyrrhic, its impact on population flows (including labour flows) may be severe. Europe as a neoliberal union (or empire) has to forge today’s appropriate care and protection regime. Both force and monetary tools will operate as instruments of this transformation. In that sense, and as the suspension of the Schengen arrangement by France in the aftermath of Paris killings suggested, Europe has already arrived at a post-Schengen era.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Post-Colonial Enquiry into Europe’s Debt and Migration CrisisHuman Migration Appearing as Crisis of Europe

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Springer Singapore
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© Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
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978-981-10-2211-1
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87 –116
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10.1007/978-981-10-2212-8_4
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[This chapter discusses the post-colonial political, ideological, and discursive context in which migration appears as a “crisis” for Europe. Europe achieved continental unification through economic means, liberal constitutionalism, and currency union. It sets goals of peace and security that encouraged everyone to be a liberal with unfettered freedom to access the market and, on the other hand, allowed the European Union to follow interventionist policies near abroad. The consequences of the union are to be found in Europe’s restrictive and contradictory policies and programmes relating to immigration and refugee protection. European migration crisis originates from this. This chapter concludes by way of suggesting that neoliberalism’s victory in Europe may have come at a great cost. As the Paris and Brussels killings suggested, even though this victory may be pyrrhic, its impact on population flows (including labour flows) may be severe. Europe as a neoliberal union (or empire) has to forge today’s appropriate care and protection regime. Both force and monetary tools will operate as instruments of this transformation. In that sense, and as the suspension of the Schengen arrangement by France in the aftermath of Paris killings suggested, Europe has already arrived at a post-Schengen era.]

Published: Oct 11, 2016

Keywords: European migration; European migration crisis; Post-Schengen; Neoliberal empire; European borders; FRONTEX; Boat people; Syrian refugee; Lampadusa; Greek communist party; Labour migration; European labour mobility; Autonomy of migration

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