Europe's Migration Crisis

Overview

Rejecting claims that migration is a crisis for Europe, this book instead suggests that the migration crisis reflects a more fundamental breakdown of a modern European tradition of humanism.

Analysis of EU Response

Squire provides a detailed and broad-ranging analysis of the EU's response to the crisis, highlighting the centrality of practices of governing migration through death and precarity.

Activist Interventions

Furthermore, she unpacks a series of pro-migration activist interventions that emerge from the lived experiences of those regularly confronting the consequences of the EU's response.

Implications and Humanism

By showing how these advance alternative horizons of solidarity and hope, Squire draws attention to a renewed humanism that is grounded both in a deepened respect for the lives and dignity of people on the move, and an appreciation of longer histories of violence and dispossession.

Intended Audience

This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers working on migration in political science, international relations, European studies, law, and sociology.