From Citizenship to Resilience. The European Legal Approach to Migration through its Changing Political Paradigms

Migration movements, with all the related issues regarding their regulation, are at the very heart of today’s European legal and political debate. Migration is a theme whose criticism is going to put Europe in a “process of disintegration”. Despite this Criticisms, if we consider European Modern Legal and Political Thought, Migration recalls concepts quite different from its actual consideration: a natural right, both for natural law theories and some liberal scholars; an individual status, in the perspective of the legal and political order, that is concerned by the same conceptual framework belonging to citizenship (borders, territory, sovereignty), both within a “nation state’s imaginary”.