Full Description
This book provides a critical analysis of irregular migration to Europe from a neo-Gramscian perspective. It demonstrates how the contemporary EU migration management regime came about within the context of a neoliberal hegemonic project, which in turn was advanced using neofunctionalist methods of integration. Relying on field research that was carried out in Bulgaria, Italy, Germany and Greece, the book also describes how European migration management is experienced by irregular migrants themselves. It suggests that the social purpose of migration management cannot be understood without assessing the experiences of the objects of migration regimes. The 2015 migration crisis revealed that large-scale migration has the potential to undermine some of the greatest achievements of the European integration project such as the Schengen system and open internal borders. This book shows that this fragility is the result of inherent contradictions within the neoliberal hegemonic project for the European Union. As such this book is an interesting read for academics, students, policy makers and all those working in international migration and European integration.
Contents
Introduction.- Chapter 1: Neofunctionalism in Theory and Practice.- Chapter 2: Thinking Europe Differently - Critical Approaches to European Integration.- Chapter 3: The Margins of History - Rediscovering the Subaltern.- Chapter 4: Migration Management in the EU.- Chapter 5: Migration Management within a National Context.- Chapter 6: Being Spillover - Undocumented Migrants' Experience or European Integration.- Chapter 7: Three Contradictions of Neofunctionalist European Integration.- Conclusion: What Future for Europe?.
