In 1320, King Philip V of France suppressed the "Shepherds," a rural movement that had tried to restart the crusades by massacring communities of Jews and Muslims across France and Aragon. In 1321, he approved the executions and expulsions of those same communities, this time for colluding with lepers to poison wells and "infect people […]
The 2016 Brexit vote, in which a small majority of UK voters said they wanted to leave the European Union, was followed by calls for Frexit, Nexit, and 脰xit, as European far-right leaders pledged that their countries would also leave the EU. We will discuss how a party that had never won seats in the […]
This talk highlights Europe鈥檚 under鈥慳cknowledged role in shaping migration diplomacy by recentering European agency both historically and in the present. Rather than viewing Europe primarily as a target of pressure from states in the Global South, the talk argues that Europe has long acted as an introducer of migration diplomacy through imperial systems of population […]
