Borders and Migrations: The Fundamental Contradictions

Abstract

Borders and migration are linked, because there are no migrants without borders and no borders without people trying to trespass the borders. In the past, it was more difficult to leave one’s country than to enter in another country but in the last thirty years, the entrance has become more difficult than the exit. The European immigration and asylum policy, with the asylum crisis of 2015, has put the focus on the perverse effects of it, as well as on the various forms of European crises relating to migration and asylum: a crisis of solidarity between the EU states and a crisis of reliance between the EU Commission and the nation-states, in a context of the rise of sovereignism and of extreme rightist anti-immigrant discourses.