Is the European Union (EU) in a state of crisis? Over recent years, a series of systemic and spontaneous challenges, including Brexit, the rise of Euroscepticism and the Eurozone and refugee crises, have manifested in landmark moments for European integration.
First published as a special issue of the journal Global Discourse, this edited collection investigates whether these crises are isolated phenomena or symptoms of a deeper malaise across the EU. Experts from across disciplines analyse and rethink the forces which pull Europeans together, as well as those which push them apart.
This book examines the factors affecting the health and wellbeing of young people as they transition to adulthood under the shadow of migration control. Drawing on unique longitudinal data, it illuminates how they conceptualize wellbeing for themselves and others in contexts of prolonged and politically induced uncertainty.
The authors offer an in-depth analysis of the experiences of over one hundred unaccompanied young migrants, primarily from Afghanistan, Albania and Eritrea. They show the lengths these young people will go to in pursuit of safety, security and the futures they aspire to.
Interdisciplinary in nature, the book champions a new political economy analysis of wellbeing in the context of migration and demonstrates the urgent need for policy reform.
191 Global Discourse • vol 9 • no 1 • 191–93 © Bristol University Press 2019 • Online ISSN 2043-7897 https://doi.org/10.1332/204378919X15470487645411 Themed Issue: The Limits of EUrope: Identities, Spaces, Values Part III: Limits to European Space and Borders REPLY Response to ‘Migration, solidarity and the limits of Europe’ by Martina Tazzioli and William Walters Liz Fekete, liz@irr.org.uk Director, Institute of Race Relations, UK Key words shrinking space • xeno-racism • nativism • Facilitators Directive • search-and- rescue To cite this article
). Both French and Italian governments refer to the 2002 EU Facilitation Directive which prevents and penalises ‘the facilitation of unauthorised entry, transit and residence’12 of migrants. The Directive includes a clause for exempting those who provide humanitarian assistance; however, the clause is non-binding and therefore discretionary to member states if applying it or not (Carrera et al, 2016). In France, the article 662 of the Code of Entry and Residence of Foreigners and of the Right to Asylum (CESEDA) has been at the core of political and legal disputes
right to warn against a solidarity that reduces migrant solidarity initiatives to narrow legal fights (to reform the 2002 Facilitators Directive, for instance), they may have inadvertently downplayed the role of the law as a boundary-creating device and the importance that attempts to challenge it can play in any resistance struggle, as unjust laws invoke memories of the conscientious objector. In addition, it is the xeno-racist laws institutionalised by European governments over several decades that, in giving a fillip to popular stereotypes against migrants and
designate the criminalisation of acts in support of the migrants that state authorities instigate on the basis of both national and European laws ( Baudet and Carrere, 2004 ; Fekete, 2009 ). Both French and Italian governments refer to the 2002 EU Facilitation Directive which prevents and penalises ‘the facilitation of unauthorised entry, transit and residence’ 12 of migrants. The Directive includes a clause for exempting those who provide humanitarian assistance; however, the clause is non-binding and therefore discretionary to member states if applying it or not
