Europe without Borders (eBook)

A History

Isaac Stanley-Becker (Autor)

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2025
383 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691261744 (ISBN)

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The contested creation of free movementfor people and goodsin the Schengen area of EuropeEurope is a place of free movement among nationsor is it? The Schengen area, established in 1985 and today encompassing twenty-nine European countries, allows people, goods, and capital to cross borders without restraint. Schengen transformed European life, advancing both a democratic project of transnational citizenship and a neoliberal project of international free trade. But the right of free movement always excluded non-Europeans, especially migrants of color from former colonies of the Schengen states. In Europe without Borders, Isaac Stanley-Becker explores the contested creation of free movement in Schengen, from treatymaking at European summits and disputes in international courts to the street protests of undocumented immigrants who claimed free movement as a human right.Schengen laid the groundwork for the making of a single market and the founding of the European Union. Yet its emergence is one of the great untold stories of modern European history, one hidden in archives long embargoed. Stanley-Becker is among the first to have access to records of the treatymakingsuch as letters between France's Francois Mitterrand and West Germany's Helmut Kohland Europe without Borders offers a pathbreaking account of Schengen's creation. Stanley-Becker argues that Schengen gave a humanist cast to a market paradigm; but even in pairing the border crossing of human beings with the principles of free-market exchange, this vision of free movement was hedged by alarm about foreign migrants. Meanwhile, these migrantsthe sans-papierssaw in the promise of a borderless Europe only a neocolonial enterprise.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.1.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 25 b/w illus. 3 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 20th century Europe • Abolition • agreement • Asylum • authority • Barriers • Benelux • Berlin Wall • Bernard • Borders • Capital • Church • Cissé • Citizens • Cold War. • commission • Community • conflict • Consumerism • Cooperation • Cosmopolitan • Cosmopolitanism • Countries • Country • court • Cross • Data • democratic • economic • European Integration • European Union • Europe without Borders: A History • Euroskepticism • Exclusion • External • Fontainebleau • force • foreign • foreigners • freedom • Free Market • Free movement • Frontiers • Globalization • goods • Government • gravier • History • Human • Human Rights • Illegal • Immigrants • Immigration • Information • Institutions • Integration • Interior • Internal • internationalism • Isaac Stanley-Becker • Justice • Law • legal • Market • Migrants • Nation • Nationalism • NATIONALS • Neoliberalism • Papiers • parliament • Pasqua • persons • Police • Populism • postwar Europe • Power • Principles • Provisions • ratification • Refugee crisis • Republic • Rules • Saint • Saint Bernard • SANS • Sans-Papiers • Schengen • security • Sovereignty • space • supranational • Surveillance • Territory • terrorism • Trade • transnational • Treaty • Treatymakers
• ISBN-13: 9780691261744 / 9780691261744