FAILURE OF THE MIGRATION POLICY AND OF MULTICULTURALISM IN THE EU- THE ‘CALAIS JUNGLE’AND THE SETUP OF PARALLEL SOCIETIES
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15 August 2016
Abstract
DURING THE CURRENT MIGRATION CRISIS VARIOUS LEADERS FROM CENTRAL EASTERN EUROPE HAVE RAISED THEIR VOICE AGAINST MULTICULTURALISM AND THE INTEGRATION OF IMMIGRANTS, SUSTAINING THAT ON THE LONG RUN IT’LL LEAD TO THE FORMATION OF PARALLEL SOCIETIES. ACCORDING TO THESE STATESMEN, ONCE IN THESE IMMIGRANTS WOULD KEEP THEIR COMMUNITIES BASED ON THE VALUES BROUGHT WITH THEM AND THEN SOONER OR LATER, EVEN IF THESE VALUES ARE DIFFERENT FROM THE EUROPEAN ONES, THE EUROPEANS WOULD HAVE TO ACCEPT THEM FOR THE SAKE OF CO HABITATION. THIS WOULD LEAD TO THE EROSION OF THE COMMON EUROPEAN IDENTITY AND OF THE JUDEO -CHRISTIAN LEGACY. LINKING MULTICULTURALISM WITH THE SET UP OF PARALLEL SOCIETIES IS NOT A NOVELTY IN THE EU’S POLITICAL SPACE, AS A FEW YEARS AGO THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER DAVID CAMERON OPENLY ADMITTED IN ONE HIS SPEECHES HELD IN 2011 IN MUNICH, GERMANY THAT THE “STATE OF MULTICULTURALISM” HAS FAILED IN THE UK, REFERRING TO THE INCAPABILITY AND UNWILLINGNESS OF MOSTLY MUSLIM COMMUNITIES TO INTEGRATE, ACCUSING HIS COUNTRY OF ENCOURAGING DIFFERENT CULTURES TO LIVE SEPARATE LIVES. HE OBJECTED TO ALL KINDS OF EXTREMISM AND RADICALIZATION, URGING FOR A STRONGER NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE UK. ONE OF THE MOST VIVID EXAMPLES OF THE FAILURE OF THE MANAGEMENT OF THE MIGRATION CR ISIS IN EUROPE AND ALSO THE MATERIALIZATION OF PARALLEL SOCIETIES AND THE SELF AND OTHER DELINEATION SET UP BY IRREGULAR AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS, IS THE SO CALLED CALAIS JUNGLE. THIS ARTICLE AIMS TO ANALYSE THE EU’S MIGRATION POLICY IN THE...
Keywords
GATED COMMUNITY
CHRISTIAN EUROPE
EUROPEAN IDENTITY
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