Reconsidering Europe's Immigration Issue in the Context of Racism

This paper aims to reconsider the Europe’s immigration issue through the lens of deconstruction as a displacement of problematic presuppositions which are intrinsic to mainstream approaches. Focusing on Europe’s current troubled affair with its postcolonial and post Second World War Muslims, it analyzes this trouble as a symptom of racism perpetrated by the modern colonial epistemic and material design of Europe. It interrogates this design from a Foucauldian perspective by focusing on the biopolitical implications of liberal governmentality with a specific emphasis on biopolitization of borders which are shaped through the paranoid style of politics. It asserts that this design has been shaped alongside the political adoption of Kantian rational-normative ethics and perpetual peace.