Daria Davitti (Lund): Biopolitical Borders and the State of Exception in the European Migration “Crisis”. Emil O. W. Kirkegaard, Julius Bjerrekaer, and Noah Carl (Oxford): Are Immigration Policy Preferences Based on Accurate Stereotypes? Hannah Richter (Hertfordshire): Homo Sacer is Syrian: Movement-Images from the European “Refugee Crisis”. Wolfgang Streeck (Max Planck): Between Charity and Justice: Remarks on the Social Construction of Immigration Policy in Rich Democracies. Steven Feldstein on the roots to the Libyan migration crisis and European culpability for documented human rights abuses. Risk and hardship on the way to Europe: What makes women migrants vulnerable in EU borderlands?
Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez (Giessen): The Coloniality of Migration and the “Refugee Crisis”: On the Asylum-Migration Nexus, the Transatlantic White European Settler Colonialism-Migration and Racial Capitalism. Georg Koeppinghoff (St. Gallen): Why Dublin Fails: The Prisoner’s Dilemma in Europe’s Responsibility-Allocation for Refugees. Eamon Aloyo and Eugenio Cusumano (Leiden): Morally Evaluating Human Smuggling: The Case of Migration to Europe. “This route doesn’t exist on the map”: How efforts to block refugees and asylum-seekers from Europe have only made the global migration crisis more complex and harrowing.
Migration to Europe is down sharply, so is it still a “crisis”? Europe’s ageing societies require immigration to survive — and that means anti-immigration politics is here to stay.
