Migration, New Nationalisms and Populism: An Epistemological Perspective on the Closure of Rich Countries

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Borders as a trap? -- Hospitality and care -- Covid-19 and (missed) opportunities -- Constitutive elements of capitalism -- Migrations as an on-going movement -- Worldwide diverse populisms: the recurrence of Ur-fascism -- Populism or nationalism? -- Europe as (an) enclosure -- European supremacism -- The cosmopolitics of state closure -- Attempts at opening/closure while preserving borders and the economic system -- Chapter 2 Translation and migration -- Translating as relating to others -- Translation and transnation -- The post-1989 context, confusionism or disorientation -- A war on migrants? -- Stuck in the Balkans -- Linguistic aspects of populism -- Populism in India -- Women and migrants -- Constructing knowledge together -- The epistemological turn -- Chapter 3 Who are contemporary migrants and refugees? -- Migrants have no choice but to come in openness -- Forced migrations and border crossing -- The state that will be expected to be the receptacle of migrants -- Danger at sea -- Immigration as a solution for declining work forces: integration? -- Immunisation against others -- New shifts of borders? -- Southern European rescuing at sea -- All priorities are prioritarian -- Chapter 4 The EU post-1989 failure and closure -- What is populism? -- Much confusionism, disorientation, and depoliticisation -- Populism and the state in Europe -- Populisms in post-Yugoslav countries -- Central and eastern Europe, closure and pandemic -- Theories on populism -- National populism in France -- Various readings of populism and fascism -- Chapter 5 Belonging or departing -- New migrations -- Sovereignty and memory -- The Nonaligned Movement -- A new form of socialism.

This book examines the antagonist relationship between new European nationalisms as these often go hand-in-hand with populism, and the phenomenon of migration. Migration has become a significant issue both in Europe and the whole world. Although it has always existed, much of public opinion sees it now as a problem. The latter has been exaggerated through a crisis in hospitality exacerbated by the relatively recently constructed and misplaced feeling of a civilizational threat from Islam. Migration is then countered by the escalation of new nationalisms, at least some of which are supported by populism. This book offers an understanding of this conjunction of migration and nationalism in the post-cold war European context. More specifically, the book takes up how the end of the simplified cold war cognitive binary means an unprecedented epistemological confusion and depoliticization which takes migration as its target, but could resort to other targets too. Discussing the postcolonial background to the new migration, the book also considers women rights, post-socialism and the relevance of the current pandemic, as the issue of migration is addressed in the context of European crisis-ridden present. This wide-ranging interrogation of how contemporary European migration is conceived and understood will appeal to students, academics, activists, policy makers and others with interests in contemporary migration, new nationalisms, populism, feminisms, colonial, postcolonial and decolonial issues as well as socialism and post-socialism.

"This book examines the antagonist relationship between new European nationalisms as these often go hand-in-hand with populism, and the phenomenon of migration. Migration has become a significant issue both in Europe and the whole world. Although it has always existed, much of public opinion sees it now as a problem. The latter has been exaggerated through a crisis in hospitality exacerbated by the relatively recently constructed and misplaced feeling of a civilizational threat from Islam. Migration is then countered by the escalation of new nationalisms, at least some of which are supported by populism. This book offers an understanding of this conjunction of migration and nationalism in the post-cold war European context. More specifically, the book takes up how the end of the simplified cold war cognitive binary means an unprecedented epistemological confusion and depoliticization which takes migration as its target, but could resort to other targets too. Discussing the postcolonial background to the new migration, the book also considers women rights, post-socialism and the relevance of the current pandemic, as the issue of migration is addressed in the context of European crisis-ridden present. This wide-ranging interrogation of how contemporary European migration is conceived and understood will appeal to students, academics, activists, policy makers and others with interests in contemporary migration, new nationalisms, populism, feminisms, colonial, postcolonial and decolonial issues as well as socialism and post-socialism"--