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- Hansen, Peo, Professor, 1966-
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A Modern Migration Theory : An Alternative Economic Approach to Failed EU POlicy
- 2021
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- The widely accepted narrative that refugees admitted to the European Union constitute a fiscal burden is based on a seemingly neutral accounting exercise, in which migrants contribute less in tax than they receive in welfare assistance. A “fact” that justifies increasingly restrictive asylum policies.In this book Peo Hansen shows that this consensual cost-perspective on migration is built on a flawed economic conception of the orthodox “sound finance” doctrine prevalent in migration research and policy. By shifting perspective to examinemigration through the macroeconomic lens offered by Modern Monetary Theory, Hansen is able to demonstrate sound finance’s detrimental impact on migration policy and research, including its role in stoking the toxic debate on migration in the EU. Most importantly, Hansen’s undertaking offers the tools with which both migration research and migration policy could be modernized and put on a realistic footing.In addition to a searing analysis of EU migration policy and politics, Hansen also investigates the case of Sweden, the country that has received the most refugees in the EU in proportion to population. Hansen demonstrates how Sweden’s increased refugee spending in 2015–2017 proved to be fiscally risk-free and how the injection of funds to cash-strapped and depopulating municipalities, which received refugees, boosted economic growth and investment in welfare. Spending on refugees became a way of rediscovering the viability of welfare for all. Given that the Swedish approach to the 2015 refugee crisis has since been discarded and deemed fiscally unsustainable, Hansen’s aim is to reveal its positive effects and its applicability as a model for the EU as a whole.
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- Hansen, Peo, Professor, 1966-
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Decolonization and the spectre of the nation‐state
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Ingår i: British Journal of Sociology. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0007-1315 .- 1468-4446. ; 73:1, s. 35-49
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Gurminder Bhambra's Annual Lecture points the way to aparadigm shift in how the social sciences should approachthe nation-state,both historically and in our own times.That is to say, perceiving of Britain historically as a nation-stateor as an imperial state will make all the difference;and, as Bhambra demonstrates, it is precisely the failureto grasp the imperial fact that prevents us from grasping‘the shared histories that have configured our present’.This article reflects on the crucial imperial fact outlined byBhambra, and it applies its radical consequences for ourapproach to the broader Western European scene andthe world at large in the postwar period. Our contemporarynation-statesystem, it is argued, is not the inventionof Westphalia and European objectives, but rather theproduct of decolonization and thus a reaction and alternativeto the European designs for the modern world order,in general, and the postwar order, in particular. In relationto this, the article also explains how Bhambra's work helpsestablish a historically informed critique of methodologicalnationalism, as opposed to the many misconceptionsperpetuated by our current theoretical consensus of what‘methodological nationalism’ entails.
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- Hansen, Peo, Professor, 1966-, et al.
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Eurafrique : Aux origines coloniales de l'Union Européenne
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Alors que l’Europe, jadis triomphante, se trouve ravagée, appauvrie et divisée au sortir de la Première Guerre mondiale, un concept prometteur se diffuse dans les milieux dirigeants et intellectuels du Vieux Continent : l’Eurafrique !Faire du continent africain le ferment de l’unité européenne : tel est le projet de Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, chantre du mouvement paneuropéen, et de nombre de ses contemporains dans l’entre-deux-guerres. Le salut de l’Europe, affirment-ils, repose sur sa capacité à exploiter en commun les richesses des colonies africaines. Rivalisant avec la puissance montante des continents américain et asiatique, l’Eurafrique deviendra ainsi le pôle dominant de la géopolitique mondiale.Le projet eurafricain, un temps caressé par les régimes fascistes, renaît de ses cendres après 1945 et inspire les « fondateurs » de l’Europe : Jean Monnet, Robert Schuman, Paul Henri Spaak, Konrad Adenauer. La France, principale puissance coloniale d’Europe continentale, joue alors un rôle essentiel. Malmené en Indochine puis en Algérie, Paris s’accroche à ses possessions africaines et fait de leur inclusion dans le marché commun européen une condition sine qua nonà sa participation à la construction européenne.C’est ce dossier qu’ouvrent Peo Hansen et Stefan Jonsson. Proposant une analyse inédite des négociations qui aboutiront à la signature du traité de Rome en 1957, ils dévoilent un pan méconnu de l’histoire de l’Union européenne : ses origines coloniales.
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- Hansen, Peo, Professor, 1966-, et al.
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European Integration as a Colonial Project
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Ingår i: Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics. - London : Routledge. - 9781138944596 ; , s. 32-47
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- For a long time, studies of colonialism and imperialism focused primarily on once colonised societies where the traces and consequences of colonialism lay immediately open to anyone’s experience. In recent decades, and much due to postcolonial scholarship, which has disclosed that colonising societies were just as much influenced by colonialism as the colonised ones, there has also emerged an impressive body of research that traces colonialism’s influence on the national cultures and histories of a number of European states, and not just those that had explicit colonial ambitions. This research testifies to the fact that colonialism lingers on as a touchy and salient issue in national imaginaries and cultural identities, as well as in national high politics. Meanwhile, the urgency of a series of contemporary developments and projects should challenge research also to go beyond the methodological nationalism or, better, methodological colonial statism often inherent in such studies.In this chapter we attend to the ‘the European project’, or more specifically the project of European integration. Challenging received ideas in scholarship, we suggest a new point of departure for the analysis of the relation between Europe and Africa in the interwar and postwar eras. By demonstrating that the early European integration that culminated in the Treaty of Rome in 1957 in fact was a colonial enterprise that incorporated all the member states’ colonies within its institutional framework, we also point to the crucial implications that this has had for postcolonial relations between what is today the European Union and the former colonies in Africa.In reconceiving historical European integration as a colonial project, we also discuss the implications of this for contemporary conceptions of European integration. Provided that European integration in the postwar period to a large extent revolved around matters of trade, the EEC being a ‘customs union’, our intuition should tell us that such a project ought to have been deeply concerned with colonial affairs, particularly because the future of the French empire and its trading bloc seemed to hinge on France’s ability to preserve and consolidate its colonial economy. It should be equally safe to assume that the general political and geopolitical situation of the latter part of the 1940s and the 1950s, so profoundly marked by colonial crises and colonial wars, should have left a strong imprint on the various initiatives to bolster postwar Western European cooperation. To imagine that these circumstances did not affect European integration would be as counterintuitive as to imagine European integration to have been unaffected by the Cold War. Yet, this is how things are portrayed in just about all of today’s standard histories of European integration (see further Hansen and Jonsson 2014a). As a third and final task, then, the chapter seeks to clarify this puzzle and lacuna, focusing, inter alia, on the need to rethink the concepts and remodel the interpretive frames within which the history of European integration traditionally has been understood and explained.
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- Hansen, Peo, Professor, 1966-, et al.
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European Integration as a Colonial Project
- 2022
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Ingår i: Migration and State Formation After Colonialism. - Trenton, New Jersey : The Red Sea Press Inc.. - 9781569027653 ; , s. 23-54
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- Hansen, Peo, Professor, 1966-
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"Migration ist keine Kostenfrage"
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Ingår i: Jacobin Magazine. - Bronx, NY, United States : Jacobin Press. - 2158-2602.
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