{"product_id":"9780691261768","title":"Europe without Borders","description":"Author: Isaac Stanley-Becker\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780691261768\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 May 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 416\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contested creation of free movement  for people and goods  in the Schengen area of Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEurope is a place of free movement among nations  or is it? The Schengen area, established in 1985 and today encompassing twenty-nine European countries, allows people, goods, and capital to cross borders without restraint. Schengen transformed European life, advancing both a democratic project of transnational citizenship and a neoliberal project of international free trade. But the right of free movement always excluded non-Europeans, especially migrants of colour from former colonies of the Schengen states. In \u003ci\u003eEurope without Borders\u003c\/i\u003e, Isaac Stanley-Becker explores the contested creation of free movement in Schengen, from treatymaking at European summits and disputes in international courts to the street protests of undocumented immigrants who claimed free movement as a human right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchengen laid the groundwork for the making of a single market and the founding of the European Union. Yet its emergence is one of the great untold stories of modern European history, one hidden in archives long embargoed. Stanley-Becker is among the first to have access to records of the treatymaking  such as letters between France's Francois Mitterrand and West Germany's Helmut Kohl  and \u003ci\u003eEurope without Borders\u003c\/i\u003e offers a pathbreaking account of Schengen's creation. Stanley-Becker argues that Schengen gave a humanist cast to a market paradigm; but even in pairing the border crossing of human beings with the principles of free-market exchange, this vision of free movement was hedged by alarm about foreign migrants. Meanwhile, these migrants  the \u003ci\u003esans-papiers\u003c\/i\u003e  saw in the promise of a borderless Europe only a neocolonial enterprise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46803895713950,"sku":"ADS-9780691261768","price":59.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780691261768.jpg?v=1778206921","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780691261768","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}