Why Politicians Talk About Migration Instead of Markets
Migration is usually discussed as a question of borders, identity, or national security. This angle might obscure other more fundamental aspects. The real question to poseis not simply who moves, but how decades of marketization transformed both labor and the politics of fear.
These ideas were at the heart of Atilla Melegh’s presentation at the the Democracy Institute Annual Conference, held in Budapest on June 25- 26. With the title Imaginary Exhaustion?, this event asked to what extenttoday’s democracies are trapped by fear and exhaustion and how we might rebuild our collective imagination…
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