Europe and whiteness: Challenges to European identity and European citizenship in light of Brexit and the ‘refugees/migrants crisis’

TY - JOUR

T1 - Europe and whiteness

T2 - Challenges to European identity and European citizenship in light of Brexit and the ‘refugees/migrants crisis’

AU - Ammaturo, Francesca Romana

PY - 2019/11/1

Y1 - 2019/11/1

N2 - This article sets to use the current 'Refugees/Migrants Crisis' and Brexit as illustrative of the numerous challenges the European Union faces today when it comes to its identity and hte construction of a 'European citizenship'. By discussing the proliferation of borders in the European continent and by analysing the sociological significance of such proliferation, the article argued that EUrope is experiencing an ontological and epistemological, rather than existential, crisis that relates to its incapacity of acknowledging, and critically engage with, its fundamental neo-colonial and neo-liberal matrix. The article argues that the stalemate experiences by the European Union with respect to its regional and global relevance can only be overcome by bringing to the surface buried or disqualified knowledges about 'who counts as European' beyond whiteness. © 2018, The Author(s). This is an author produced version of a paper published in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL THEORY uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link below. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.

AB - This article sets to use the current 'Refugees/Migrants Crisis' and Brexit as illustrative of the numerous challenges the European Union faces today when it comes to its identity and hte construction of a 'European citizenship'. By discussing the proliferation of borders in the European continent and by analysing the sociological significance of such proliferation, the article argued that EUrope is experiencing an ontological and epistemological, rather than existential, crisis that relates to its incapacity of acknowledging, and critically engage with, its fundamental neo-colonial and neo-liberal matrix. The article argues that the stalemate experiences by the European Union with respect to its regional and global relevance can only be overcome by bringing to the surface buried or disqualified knowledges about 'who counts as European' beyond whiteness. © 2018, The Author(s). This is an author produced version of a paper published in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL THEORY uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link below. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.

U2 - 10.1177/1368431018783318

DO - 10.1177/1368431018783318

M3 - Article

SN - 1368-4310

VL - 22

SP - 548

EP - 566

JO - European Journal of Social Theory

JF - European Journal of Social Theory

IS - 4

ER -