Enlargement and Migration Policies in the European Union

Abstract

This panel examines the evolving intersections between EU enlargement processes and migration governance, highlighting how gender, security, identity, and informality shape Europe’s contemporary political landscape. At the same time, the panel situates migrant voices, emotions, and historical memory as central to understanding the lived realities that underpin European migration debates. Through digital archives, textual analysis, and qualitative inquiry, the papers illuminate how migrants articulate belonging, fear, agency, and aspiration within shifting political conditions. Together, these perspectives reveal how EU enlargement and migration policies are co-constituted through legal frameworks, transnational discourses, and deeply gendered power relations. The panel underscores the need to reconsider how Europe constructs solidarity, security, and citizenship in a period marked by mobility, polarization, and geopolitical change.

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