Flüchtige Präsenz: Umkämpfte Solidaritäten des EU-Migrationsregimes

Abstract

The paper discusses movements of (de-)solidarization within the EU migration regime. First, the paper scrutinizes processes of de-solidarization among EU member states that are triggered and fortified by the Dublin regulations. Inscribing harsh asymmetries in migration management systems by differentiating the so-called Southern peripheries from the putative center of Europe, neo-colonial patterns echo in this inner-European North-South conflict. Second, the paper focuses on the protests of "Lampedusa in Hamburg" fighting the repressive machinery of the EU migration regime. In reference to Judith Butler's, Isabell Lorey's, and Jacques Rancière's works on radical democracy, the concept of "refugee presences" is developed to render these protests legible as resistant forms of subjectification.