Migration and the Refugee Dissensus in Europe: Borders, Security and Austerity

The book discusses the fundamental disagreement regarding immigration and asylum in Europe since the collapse of the Cold War. It focuses on the challenges of managing migratory flows and addresses issues such as borders, security, belonging, citizenship, and labor precarity/inequality. The author proposes that the encounter with surplus populations in Europe generates potential for social imaginaries and a society of equality and rights.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 242 pages
\n Publication date: 26 September 2019
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Since the end of the Cold War, immigration and asylum have become increasingly important socio-political issues in Europe. This book aims to go beyond the complexity of managing migratory flows and focus on the most challenging issues arising from the response to the refugee crisis in Europe. The debate surrounding immigration and asylum is closely linked to borders, security, belonging, citizenship, and labor precarity/inequality. The book addresses these crucial dimensions by providing an integrated frame of analysis from the perspective of resistance rather than power. It connects notions of belonging and migrant integration with processes of de-democratization, racist populism, citizenship, and authoritarian migration regimes. By examining the potential for transition towards a society of equality and rights, the author contributes to a theory of the asylum and immigration dissensus.

The author proposes that the encounters with surplus populations in Europe, which result in the multiplication of liminal regimes and spaces for resistance, generate potential for social imaginaries, promising a society unimaginable in previous epochs.

This book will be of great interest to students of migration and border studies, global governance, European politics, and International Relations.

\n Weight: 100g\n
Dimension: 230 x 211 x 2 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781138335110\n \n