| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, October 9, 2015 | 12:00PM - 2:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place M5S 3K7 |
With a rapidly rising death toll, the refugee situation has created a sense of crisis on the borders of Europe—but where are the borders and what is the crisis?
In this talk, I will argue that the largest movement of asylum-seekers into Europe (and within Europe) since the end of the Second World War has brought into question the still unsettled system of border governance in Europe, in which each member state controls its piece of the external border. The system has presumed that relatively few people would enter by sea and land, and that airport controls would be eased by issuing visas in sending countries. The crisis, then, has resulted not simply from the number of asylum-seekers attempting to enter, but where they arrive, and how responsibility is attributed. The resulting crisis of governance has been building for at least a decade and feeds a growing public sense of declining legitimacy for European institutions.
MARTIN A. SCHAIN is Professor of Politics at New York University. He is currently writing a book entitled Borders: The Politics of Borders in Europe and the United States (Oxford, forthcoming). He is the author of The Politics of Immigration in France, Britain and the United States: A Comparative Study (New York: Palgrave, 2008/2012); co-editor and author of Comparative Federalism: The US and EU in Comparative Perspective (Oxford, 2006), Shadows Over Europe: The Development and Impact of the Extreme Right in Europe (Palgrave, 2002); and co-editor of Europe Without Borders: Remapping Territory, Citizenship, and Identity in a Transnational Age (Johns Hopkins, 2003). He has also published numerous scholarly articles on politics and immigration in Europe and the United States, the politics of the extreme right in France, and immigration and the European Union. He has taught in France, and lectured throughout Europe. Professor Schain is the founder and former director of the Center for European Studies at NYU, and former chair of the European Union Studies Association. He is co-editor of the transatlantic scholarly journal, Comparative European Politics.
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