Disaster of European Refugee Policy

Igor Ž. Žagar received a PhD in Sociology of Culture from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and is Professor of Rhetoric and Argumentation at the University of Primorska and the University of Maribor, Slovenia. He is also Senior Research Fellow and Director at the Centre for Discourse Studies at the Educational Research Institute, Slovenia. He is especially interested in pragmatics, philosophy of language, argumentation, and rhetoric. He is the author and editor of twelve books and more than a hundred articles.Neža Kogovšek Šalamon received her LLM from the University of Notre Dame, USA, and her PhD in Law from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and is a researcher and Director of the Peace Institute in Ljubljana. Her publications include Migration Law in Slovenia (2011), Erased: Citizenship, Residence Rights and the Constitution in Slovenia (2016) and Asylum Systems in the Western Balkans: Current Issues (2016). She is also co-editor of Razor-Wired: Reflections on Migration Movements through Slovenia in 2015 (2016).Marina Lukšič-Hacin received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and is a research advisor and the Head of the Slovenian Migration Institute at Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She is also Associate Professor of Sociology at the School of Humanities of the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. Her research focus includes sociology, migration studies, ethnic studies, multiculturalism, integration and identity.

"The book intrigues and attracts with the combination of two opposite perspectives on the refugee crisis (2015–2016): the first is very concrete, factually detailed, listing all dates, facts, steps of the crisis; the second is more generalized. In it the migrant/refugee crisis provides an occasion for better understanding ourselves, the political and the policies: "the refugee crisis reveals about us, the states we live in and the EU" (p. 46). Among the many merits of the book, I would single out the reconstruction of the "Balkan route", the discussion of the lack of historical memory, the strengths and limits of the humanitarian approach towards refugees, and the "deep" understanding of the refugee crisis as a crisis of the political. […] The book's merits unquestionably and categorically exceed the inevitable deficits on this hot political and humanitarian topic. This book will be of interest to a broad readership: researchers, politicians, activists, journalists, students, and people interested in European"Anna KrastevaNew Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria; Southeastern Europe, 43, 2019