Da União À Fortaleza Ou Como a Relação De Dependência Entre Migração E Integração Podem Fazer Desaparecer a Ideia De União Europeia

Abstract

The present article analyzes the correlation between migration and economic integration processes, especially the European Union, in order to verify the validity of the working hypothesis that can be summarized as: migration and integration are profoundly dependent phenomena and the existence of one is the condition for the existence of the other. The methodological path has the hermeneutical lenses of international economic law as its main interpretation tool. The discussion goes from boundaries definition and its relation with the process of economic globalization, demonstrating that migration is a powerful mechanism for redefining geographical and non-geographical borders, as well as being the base of legitimacy of Eurosceptic political movements. In the end, it concludes that migration and integration are phenomena originated from the same process of globalization and fighting the former is a fight against the later and consequently is also fighting international economic law and the process of globalization.