Description du projet
Un nouvel éclairage sur la dynamique migratoire complexe de l’Europe
Au début du processus d’intégration dans la Communauté économique européenne (CEE), la «libre circulation de la main d’œuvre» a rapproché les marchés du travail nationaux dans une mesure sans précédent. En outre, les États membres ont accepté d’abaisser les barrières à l’immigration à un moment où ils renforçaient également la protection sociale nationale à l’intérieur de leurs frontières. Le projet InternalFortress, financé par le CER, analysera la manière dont les acteurs nationaux, européens et internationaux ont œuvré pour concilier les objectifs d’une large mobilité régionale et d’une protection sociale étendue lors de la mise en œuvre de la libre circulation entre les années 1950 et 1970. Le projet examinera si l’expansion des migrations entre des marchés du travail fortement institutionnalisés aurait pu nécessiter davantage de réglementation nationale et non moins, une question susceptible d’avoir des implications importantes dans les débats actuels sur le contrôle des migrations.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
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Régime de financement
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitution d’accueil
7491 Trondheim
Norvège