EUROPE WITHOUT BORDERS

The contested creation of free movementfor people and goodsin the Schengen area of EuropeEurope is a place of free movement among nationsor is it? The Schengen area, established in 1985 and today encompassing twenty-nine European countries, allows people, goods, and capital to cross borders without restraint. Schengen transformed European life, advancing both a democratic project of transnational citizenship and a neoliberal project of international free trade. But the right of free movement always excluded non-Europeans, especially m...[Read more]