![]() ![]() In an attempt to open up spaces for alternative narratives, the postcolonial theoretical basis deconstructs the state and its ‘narration of the nation’ (Bhaba, 1994) in order to expose the ‘spatial, temporal and subjective imaginations’ (Kinnivall, 2015), that have been imposed onto a non-European ‘Other’ by a European populous in a subconscious postcolonial legacy. In an attempt to critically understand the ways in which ‘migrant bodies have become nexus points for spatial practices’ (Mains, 2013) across many levels, such as the reification in mainstream media of migrants and refugees and the fortification of Europe with ever tightening border controls, a postcolonial analysis seeks to provide a theoretical framework for undoing epistemic structures and provides a perspective that highlights issues which are often blind spotted in traditional IR theories. As a postcolonial location, ‘deeply entangled in colonial legacies’ it has been said that colonialism has never left Europe, but instead it remains a fundamental part of the ‘European reality’ (Kinnvall, 2015). ![]() The hegemonic discourse of migration in many European countries, particularly in relation to the recent migrant crisis, has been marred by an explicitly Eurocentric stance and a pronounced ‘postcolonial arrogance’, according to some observers (Gatt et al, 2016). ![]()
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