The first part of the presentation focuses on the interplay between the free movement of persons and the crucial issue of migration. More particularly, it addresses EP's proposals to constructively integrate third country migrants in the Community with a view to outlining changing notions of positive societal impact in periods characterised by crises and emands for systemic change.
In a similar vein, the second part of the presentation tackles the EP's evolving positions towards the neglecting of the solidarity and diversity dimensions of European integration as part of different asylum policy crises, focusing on increasing the capacity to humanly respond to humanitarian crises beyond security-centred conceptions of transnational mobility.
The sources used to study this particular approach to the also positive and qualitative change-inducing meaning of crises in the history of European integration are mainly: Relevant documents coming from the HAEU, from the EP Historical Archives and the EPRS in Luxembourg and from Oral History interviews with several former Presidents of the European Parliament and with other relevant players in the historical building and sustainability of the Schengen Area.
