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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 4 / 2012  
         
  Article:   BORDERS, MIGRATION, AND THE CHANGING NATURE OF SOVEREIGNITY.

Authors:  RUXANDRA IVAN. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Our contribution will try to map the main interrogations that cross the relation between democracy, migration and sovereignty in the 21st century. We will argue that, while the political body of the nation-State is fragilized by immigration, new ways of re-instituting the cohesiveness of its political community are set up by the State in order to enhance its identity through difference with respect to others. These include the consolidation of external borders, but also enhancing the symbolic internal boundaries between “us” and “the others”. The recent discourse of the European leaders about the failure of multiculturalism is an example of this attempt to re-institute difference.

Keywords: borders; migration; sovereignty; globalization; fences. 		 
         
     
         
         
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