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Solidarity and the making of the EU's free movement of persons

A fundamental rights analysis of human mobility rights EP debates from 1985

Add to calendar 2023-05-12 11:30 2023-05-12 12:30 Europe/Rome Solidarity and the making of the EU's free movement of persons Sala dei Cuoi and Zoom YYYY-MM-DD
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When

12 May 2023

11:30 - 12:30 CEST

Where

Sala dei Cuoi and Zoom

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This session features a presentation by Cristina Blanco Sío-López (University of La Coruña).

This presentation critically analyses the relevant role of EP debates in the consolidation of solidarity approaches to the EU's free movement of persons. It looks at the role, actions and discourses of fundamental players at the European Parliament (EP) articulating differential resilient responses to evolving crises of human mobility rights since the inception of the Schengen Area in 1985. Furthermore, this paper aims to recover empowering historical critiques towards the so-called 'Schengen Laboratory' which could be relevant today to find inclusive ways of responding to the asylum and migration external dimension challenges currently being posed with regards to the EU's free movement of persons. This enquiry on EP sources is based on archival research at the Historical Archives of the EU in Florence, at the Historical Archives of the EP in Luxembourg and at the EP Research Services. These sources also include a large set of Oral History interviews conducted with key decision-makers at the European institutions comprising discursive utterances on ways of influencing the dynamics resulting from introducing a 'solidarity' and a fundamental rights element within the EU's 'free movement of persons' policy-making.

Speaker bio:

Dr Cristina Blanco Sío-López is 'María Zambrano' Senior Distinguished Researcher at the University of La Coruña (UDC), Spain, and Principle Investigator of the FUNDEU project, financed by the NextGenerationEU framework, and of the EU Horizon 2020 research project 'Navigating Schengen: Historical Challenges and Potentialities of the EU's Free Movement of Persons, 1985-2015'. Cristina obtained her PhD in History and Civilisation at the EUI. 

Scientific Organiser(s):

Susi Forderer

Speaker(s):

Flips Schöyen (European University Institute)

Dr. Cristina Blanco Sío-López

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