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EU Migration Management and the Social Purpose of European Integration

The Spillover of Misery

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Authors:
  1. Harald Köpping Athanasopoulos

    1. ESSCA School of Management, The EU-Asia Institute, Angers Cedex 01, France

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  • Highlights the role of neofunctionalism in the European integration process
  • Uses an innovative Gramscian approach to studying European migration policy
  • Emphasises the underexplored concept of subalternity
  • Contextualises the experiences of irregular migrants

Part of the book series: IMISCOE Research Series (IMIS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Harald Köpping Athanasopoulos
    Pages 1-11

  3. Neofunctionalism in Theory and Practice

    • Harald Köpping Athanasopoulos
    Pages 13-41

  4. Thinking Europe Differently – Critical Approaches to European Integration

    • Harald Köpping Athanasopoulos
    Pages 43-64

  5. The Margins of History – Rediscovering the Subaltern

    • Harald Köpping Athanasopoulos
    Pages 65-79

  6. Migration Management in the EU

    • Harald Köpping Athanasopoulos
    Pages 81-97

  7. Migration Management Within a National Context

    • Harald Köpping Athanasopoulos
    Pages 99-115

  8. Being Spillover – Undocumented Migrants’ Experience of European Integration

    • Harald Köpping Athanasopoulos
    Pages 117-143

  9. Three Contradictions of Neofunctionalist European Integration

    • Harald Köpping Athanasopoulos
    Pages 145-163

  10. Conclusion: What Future for Europe?

    • Harald Köpping Athanasopoulos
    Pages 165-171
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About this book

This book provides a critical analysis of irregular migration to Europe from a neo-Gramscian perspective. It demonstrates how the contemporary EU migration management regime came about within the context of a neoliberal hegemonic project, which in turn was advanced using neofunctionalist methods of integration. Relying on field research that was carried out in Bulgaria, Italy, Germany and Greece, the book also describes how European migration management is experienced by irregular migrants themselves. It suggests that the social purpose of migration management cannot be understood without assessing the experiences of the objects of migration regimes. The 2015 migration crisis revealed that large-scale migration has the potential to undermine some of the greatest achievements of the European integration project such as the Schengen system and open internal borders. This book shows that this fragility is the result of inherent contradictions within the neoliberal hegemonic project for the European Union.  As such this book is an interesting read for academics, students, policy makers and all those working in international migration and European integration.

Authors and Affiliations

  • ESSCA School of Management, The EU-Asia Institute, Angers Cedex 01, France

    Harald Köpping Athanasopoulos

About the author

Harald Köpping Athanasopoulos completed his PhD at the University of Liverpool Management School after having graduated as an MA in European Studies from Maastricht University and as a BA of International Relations from Swansea University. His research interests include European migration policy, neo-Gramscian theory, international political economy and European space policy. While he is active in academia as an associate professor at ESSCA School of Management Angers, he is also the head of the migration/integration department at Arbeit und Leben Sachsen in Leipzig.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: EU Migration Management and the Social Purpose of European Integration

  • Book Subtitle: The Spillover of Misery

  • Authors: Harald Köpping Athanasopoulos

  • Series Title: IMISCOE Research Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42040-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42039-0Published: 30 April 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42042-0Published: 30 April 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42040-6Published: 29 April 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2364-4087

  • Series E-ISSN: 2364-4095

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 171

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Migration, International Economics

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