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

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.