#31 BIG Podcast - “Democracy, Migration Studies and Border Studies: Gaps and/or Bridges” - With: Oliver Schmidtke, Political scientist, Director of the Center for Global Studies – Victoria, Canada; (PART 2)
Classically, Migration Studies explore all mobility regimes of human groups. There is a spectrum of public policies ranging from the migration of high-skilled workers to refugees. For the Migration Studies, national borders provide a form of social closure. Traditionally, Borders refer to issues that are fundamental to political community (state sovereignty, territorial delimitation, national security, political identity). And for this reason, borders are also instruments for regulating flows, policy tool for inclusion/exclusion. Several authors have pointed out a form of gap between Border Studies and Migration Studies. That there was a lack of cross-fertilization between these two research traditions. And some populist and nationalist discourses can exploit the ambivalence of the borders and the confusion around it. We will discuss about all the relations between democracy, migration and borders and get answers with Oliver Schmidtke.
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TIME MARKERS
00:22 Crisis of Democracy and the Political Question of the Boundaries of Shared Collective Identity
6:17 Relations between Democracy and the Growth of Nationalism and Populism
10:12 Cleisthenes and the question of the delimitation of a “Demos”
14:53 What is happening in Europe? New Geography of Political Discontent and Skepticism about Democratic Practices?
19:17 Nativism Activism and the threats against Democracy in Europe
23:15 Populism and the concept of Popular Sovereignty
27:28 Neoliberalism against Democracy and the Right-Wing Nationalism
31:31Different Types of Democracies, Cross-Border identities and the Role of Memory
38:52 Importance of Academic Research and Future of the Center for Global Studies