Title:	A Post-Colonial Enquiry into Europe’s Debt and Migration Crisis
Authors:	Ranabir Samaddar
Keywords:	Migration Crisis
Issue Date:	2016
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	Four of the five chapters of this book were composed in the months of July–November 2015 around the debt and currency crisis in Europe (known as the Greece crisis, March–August 2015) and the immediately following migration crisis (August–November 2015). The first three chapters dealing with the debt issue reflect three specific concerns on the Greek crisis. The fourth chapter reflects on what is known as the European migration crisis and probes the links between the two crises—debt and migration. Indeed, the migration crisis continues and shows little signs of lessening. The chapters therefore bear the marks of the two crises developing in quick succession. The concluding chapter discusses the connecting theme between the analyses of the two crises. The theme is of course expressed in the title of first chapter itself, namely the post-colonial bind of Greece, but in a larger sense of Europe. To be truthful, attention to Europe’s migration crisis helps to put her debt crisis in proper perspective. Readers, however, should not assume that the author expresses elation in this book that one more country has joined the post-colonial ranks, and behold this time a country from within the European Union! The purpose is to examine in the light of twenty-first century capitalism few notions such as crisis, rupture, dialogue, migration, and the old, never to be settled, question of ideology. The author only wishes to suggest that a critical post-colonial sense of history, accumulation, nation form, and contemporary time will help us make sense of what is now happening to Europe. Therefore, this short book should not be confused with the chaste, upper class works on post-colonial studies that abound the departments of literature and cultural studies in the universities of the West and now increasingly India. It does not belong to that traditional genre of post-colonial studies. Rather, it aims to ground post-colonial reference in a materialist framework.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/54083
ISBN:	978-981-10-2212-8
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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