Postnationalism and the Challenges to European Integration in Greece: The Transformative Power of Immigration

149 Pages·2017·3.12 MB·English

by  Kostas Maronitis (auth.)

Postnationalism and the Challenges
to European Integration in Greece
KostasMaronitis
Postnationalism
and the Challenges
to European
Integration
in Greece
The Transformative Power of Immigration
KostasMaronitis
LeedsTrinityUniversity
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How Can OneTakeDelight inthe WorldUnlessOne Flies
to it forRefuge?
Franz Kafka
The Zürau Aphorisms
Thanks to themorbid estrangementwhich the lunacyofnationality has
produced andcontinues to producebetween thepeoples ofEurope,thanks
likewise to theshortsighted andhast-handed politicians whoare withits aid
on toptoday and have notthe slightestnotionto what extent the politicsof
disintegrationthey pursue mustnecessarilybeonly aninterlude—thanksto
allthis, andto much else that isaltogetherunmentionabletoday, themost
unambiguous signsare nowbeingoverlooked,or arbitrarilyandlyingly
misinterpreted,which declare thatEurope wants to becomeone.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
For my motherSofia
A
CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In the first instance, I would like to thank the editors at Palgrave-
Macmillan for the enthusiasm they expressed in the book and for their
helpthroughoutitspublication.Iwouldalsoliketothanktheanonymous
reviewers for their useful insights and recommendations. Nothing would
have been possible without the intellectual input and moral support of
AlevAdilwhohasfollowedeverystepofthebook’sresearchandwriting.
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ONTENTS
1 Introduction 1
Is ThisEurope? 1
Why Greece? 5
The Planof the Book 7
2 EuropeanUnificationandExclusion Regimes 9
The ImmigrationCrisis asEuropean Crisis 9
The EU betweenEuro-sceptics andEurophiles 16
The EU betweenUtopia and Dystopia 18
Utopia and its Opposites 20
3 ImmigrationPolicies andthe Controlof Mobility 27
The Geography ofMobilityand Immigration Policy 27
Immigration Policy inGreece: ReorganisingtheSocial/
Defending National Culture 31
The Law asaMechanism ofExclusion and Uncertainty 40
Precarisationand State Racism 44
4 EuropeanCivilisation,National Power,and the Detention
ofImmigrants 47
Protecting Citizensand ExcludingImmigrants 47
The Materialand TerritorialPower of theDetentionCentre 49
Administering Detention 53
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“Special Facilities”: TheViolence
on Rightsand the Rightto Violence 55
The Meaningof DetentionCentresin Greece 60
5 TheNew Subjectivityof Nationalism 65
The Project ofNationalist Subjectivity 65
The IntegratingCapacities
of Societyand theFreedom ofthe Subject 66
The ContemporaryNationalist Subject in Greece:Between
Denial andIdeological Dominance 68
The Anti-Subject:Nationalist Subjectivity and Violence 72
Foodand Blood: Nationalism,Racismand Welfare 75
The Legitimation Process ofthe NewRightorHow
the NationalistSubject Asserts Itself 77
Social Values,Eviland Punishment 82
6 TheSocial Process ofIntegration andTolerance 85
Managing thePresence of theImmigrant/Promoting
Social Cohesion 85
Manifestations and Implementationsof Integration 88
The Limitationsof National Models ofIntegration:
Convergenceand Lackof Coordination 91
Making theInvisible Visible:Integration, Religious
Diversity and theBuildingof aMosquein Athens 92
Tolerance and Integration 97
7 Postnationalism, SolidarityandEuropeanCitizenship:
Recognisingthe TransformativePower ofImmigration 103
EscapingState Thought:Recognition and Rights 103
Coercion and NegativeIntegration 106
The Recognition ofUnregulated Immigrantsand Refugees
as Partofthe People 109
EU Citizenship andthe Democratisation ofEurope through
Immigration 114
CONTENTS xiii
References 121
Index 137