Vanishing Migrants and the impossibility of a European Union
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7823388 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter J Maurits (0009-0008-4269-4529, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, corresponding author), Peter Maurits |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 503-518 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interventions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-801X • E-ISSN: 1469-929X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369801x.2014.950313 |
| OpenAlex | W2066040821 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
The cases of Romania and Greece show that the EU's increasingly strict exclusion policy for non-EU migrants is not in the best interests of the European Union. It can destabilize the very ideological and legal foundation on which the EU rests: the Lisbon Treaty. Cases like France, however, show that this is different for individual member states, pointing to a friction between the parts and the whole. It is suggested here that the EU tries to overcome this friction through the use of language, the digitalization of border surveillance, and border agencies like Frontex. All three erase migrants' visibility, reducing them to ghostly figures that are both present (digitally) and absent (physically). However, these ghosts cannot be excluded, and thus resist the impenetrability of the walls of Fortress Europe
Ancient history · Business · Ethnology · European union · Geography · Ideology · Impossibility · International trade · Irregular migration · Member states · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Treaty · Visibility · European Criminal Justice and Data Protection · History · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Theology and Sovereignty
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |