Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Critical Perspectives on the Emerging Forms of Global Solidarities, Belgrade, Sırbistan, 08 Kasım 2024, ss.18-19
The European Council adopted the European Union’s (EU’s) Pact on Migration and Asylum (the Pact) on 14 May 2024. The Pact aims to establish a set of five separate but intertwined pieces of legislation for screening and regulating arrivals in an orderly way, to create efficient and uniform procedures and to ensure fair burden sharing between member states. The latter introduces solidarity among member states, although it does not alter the long-standing Dublin principle, which lays the responsibility for an asylum application to the first country of arrival. The Pact’s way of prompting solidarity among the member states through a set of mechanisms brings the concept of solidarity into question.
In this study, we seek to critically analyse the conceptualisation and implementation of solidarity according to the Pact, questioning its underlying theoretical assumptions. In the first part of the study, we analyse the concept of solidarity in the context of the EU’s migration policies, relying on the theoretical frameworks developed within political theory and moral philosophy, with a special emphasis on the Pact. We argue that the Pact’s operationalisation of solidarity lacks a robust moral grounding, as it fails to address humanitarian concerns adequately and perpetuates existing inequities among member states. In the second part, drawing on the works of Foucault and Agamben, we examine the concept of solidarity in relation to the politics and practice of regulating migrant bodies, illustrating how the pact functions as a mechanism of governance that prioritises security and order over human rights. In the concluding part, we incorporate a postcolonial critical analysis to expose how the Pact perpetuates legacies of exclusion and marginalisation, underscoring the need for a more equitable and humane approach to migration management.
Ultimately, this study aims to encourage a rethinking of solidarity within the EU’s migration framework, advocating for policies that genuinely embody the principles of solidarity and human dignity.
Keywords: Pact on Migration and Asylum, ethics, solidarity, biopolitics, postcolonial analysis