Descripción del proyecto
Nuevas perspectivas sobre la compleja dinámica migratoria de Europa
Durante el proceso inicial de integración en la Comunidad Económica Europea (CEE), la «libre circulación de trabajadores» acercó los mercados laborales nacionales a un grado sin precedentes. Además, los Estados miembros acordaron reducir las barreras a la migración durante un periodo en el que también reforzaban el bienestar social nacional detrás de sus fronteras. El equipo del proyecto InternalFortress, financiado por el CEI, analizará cómo los agentes nacionales, europeos e internacionales trabajaron para conciliar los objetivos de una movilidad regional amplia y una protección social profunda a medida que se iba aplicando la libre circulación desde los años cincuenta hasta los setenta del siglo pasado. En el proyecto se examina si la expansión de la migración entre mercados laborales altamente institucionalizados puede haber requerido más regulación nacional y no menos, una cuestión con importantes implicaciones para los debates actuales sobre el control de la migración.
Objetivo
Against the prevailing view that freedom of movement lowered internal barriers to movement while raising walls against outsiders to create a ‘fortress Europe,’ this project investigates how the introduction of freedom of movement may have strengthened national political authority over European migration within the member states of the European Economic Community (EEC). InternalFortress suggests that as governments gradually lifted entry restrictions across the EEC, they also built out new internal administrative machinery to insert ‘Community migrants’ into key areas of social and economic life, placing migrants from outside the bloc at a disadvantage within local communities. The project explores this hypothesis in three key areas: social security, skill development, and union participation. The PI will lead a team of two PhD researchers and one postdoc to deploy a methodologically innovative multi-layered research program that analyses the interplay between national, European, and international institutions, as well as the private NGO networks that flowed between those formal frameworks. In contrast to previous histories of freedom of movement, which explain policy outcomes leading up to today’s regime of European citizenship, InternalFortress makes an important interpretive innovation by focusing squarely on the early process of transition from the 1950s to the 1970s. The project will investigate how the improvised nature of early integration created gaps and tensions that were consolidated in the 1970s as national and regional migration policies settled into more rigid patterns. InternalFortress suggests that policies behind the border matter as much as policies at the border for understanding the acrimonious debates around European migration that continue through the present.
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitución de acogida
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