{"id":25746,"date":"2016-11-30T10:22:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T15:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=25746"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:54:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:54:33","slug":"fmht-sojka-discusses-european-migrant-crisis-and-political-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2016\/11\/30\/fmht-sojka-discusses-european-migrant-crisis-and-political-identification\/","title":{"rendered":"FMHT: Sojka Discusses EU Migrant Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/11\/FMHT1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/11\/FMHT1-516x300.jpg\" alt=\"fmht1\" width=\"516\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/11\/FMHT1-516x300.jpg 516w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/11\/FMHT1-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/11\/FMHT1-1024x596.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking, a research initiative at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, hosted\u00a0<span>Dr. Aleksandra Sojka on November 29, 2016 for a conversation on\u00a0the migrant and refugee crisis in the European Union, supranational policy and political identification in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sojka, a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Center for European Studies, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Granada, Spain Department of Political Science. Her teaching and research interests include comparative politics, European Union politics and political sociology of Europe with a special focus on the politics and societies of Southern and Central Eastern Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sojka&#8217;s talk was entitled &#8220;Making or Breaking the Union: Migrant and Refugee Crisis, Supranational Policy and Political Identification in Europe.&#8221; She discussed how current global trends toward nationalism have affected European integration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rise of reactionary nationalism in the EU has been translated into the rise of Euroskeptics,&#8221; Sojka said. &#8220;Those parties and politicians try to appeal to potential voters by questioning the institutions, the policies and the whole idea of European integration. That&#8217;s a very specific European development, but I think it follows are more global tide. We have seen that with Brexit on one side of the Atlantic and the presidential elections in the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Sojka, while the EU was established on the basis of economic integration, the potential for the creation of a political community was also an intention during the establishment of the EU.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The EU has been established based on economic integration, however, since the beginning the potential for creating a political community was there,&#8221; Sojka said. &#8220;The idea of an ever-closer union among the people&#8217;s of Europe is in the text of the treaty that established the European Economic Community in 1957.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Aleksandra Sojka discussed the migrant and refugee crisis in the European Union, supranational policy and political identification in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8411],"tags":[9287,9885,9886,9325,9181,8782],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25746"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25770,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25746\/revisions\/25770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}