June 20

4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

0.A.03

Cristina Blanco Sío-López

Abstract: This paper will assess the value of historical analysis and diachronic normative legacies when addressing current challenges to the European Union (EU)’s free movement of persons. Indeed, the historical, legal and sociopolitical European integration intangible heritage of a ‘free movement of persons’ as a policy-relevant foothold is presently being disregarded. This contribution aims to bridge this gap via the analysis of the European Parliament (EP)'s role and impact on the changing modes of implementation of this specific Schengen Area ‘freedom’. In order to achieve these aims, this piece will discuss conceptual history legacies, social integration initiatives and comparative regional integration proposals in this fundamental realm: Human mobility rights.
The paper’s key questions are the following: What are the evolving modes of exclusion in transnational mobility in Europe and beyond? How can historical critiques be relevant to today’s challenges to free movement of persons? What are the neglected solidarity and diversity dimensions of European integration? In this light, can we articulate responses to humanitarian dilemmas beyond security-centered conceptions of transnational mobility? And normatively, are narratives on ‘shared values’ in the EU and beyond, sufficient to mediate countervailing factors of exclusion?
Archival research has been primarily conducted at the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence (HAEU), the Historical Archives of the European Parliament (HAEP) in Luxembourg and at the ‘Barbara Sloan’ European Union Delegation Collection (BSEUDC), held at the European Studies Center (ESC) – Jean Monnet EU Center of Excellence (JMEUCE) of the University of Pittsburgh.

Disciplines: History
Political Science

Substantive Tags: Cultural History, European Union and Integration, Immigration/Migration, Political History

Research Networks: European Culture

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