Reynolds, John (2020) Fortress Europe, Global Migration & the Global Pandemic. AJIL Unbound, 114. pp. 342-348. ISSN 2398-7723

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Abstract

The European Union’s external border regime is a manifestation of continuing imperialism. It reinforces particular imaginaries of Europe’s wealth as somehow innate (rather than plundered and extorted1) and of Europeanness itself as whiteness—euphemistically packaged as a “European Way of Life” to be protected.2 This exposes international law’s structural limitations—if not designs—as bound up with racial borders in the global context. In the wake of COVID-19 and with a climate apocalypse already underway, these realities need to be urgently ruptured and reimagined.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© John Reynolds 2020. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cite as: Reynolds, J. (2020). Fortress Europe, Global Migration & the Global Pandemic. AJIL Unbound, 114, 342-348. doi:10.1017/aju.2020.64
Keywords:	Fortress Europe; Global Migration; Global Pandemic; COVID-19; international law; borders; European Union; climate emergency;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Law
Item ID:	15620
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2020.64
Depositing User:	John Reynolds
Date Deposited:	04 Mar 2022 15:05
Journal or Publication Title:	AJIL Unbound
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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