1st Edition

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

By Nicos Trimikliniotis Copyright 2020
256 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book provides an explanation for the fundamental disagreement pertaining to immigration and asylum in Europe. Since the collapse of consensus with the end of the Cold War, immigration and asylum have increasingly emerged as a central socio-political issue in Europe. The present work attempts to move beyond the complexity of ‘managing’ migratory flows by focusing on the most daunting... Read more

Introduction: The migration and refugee dissensus in Europe

1. Europe’s perfect storm: The ‘refugee crisis’, liminal regimes of exception and the asylum dissensus

2. Rethinking regimes of exceptions, social excesses/imaginaries and surplus populations: Encounters, imaginaries and potentialities

3. Europe’s perfect storm and the ‘refugee crisis’: Inside a refugees’ hell, a liminal regime of exception

4. Belonging: Dissensus and Migrant Integration in the Era of Euro-crisis

5. The politics of hate: Racism and anti-immigrant populism

6. Insecurity: Anti-immigration, class and de-democratisation

7. Beyond the European migration regimes of exception: Theorising dissensus and transcending authoritarian sovereignties

Conclusion

Biography

Nicos Trimikliniotis is professor of sociology at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He heads the Cyprus team of experts for the EU Fundamental Rights Agency.