MIGRATION OR EXODUS? NEWCOMERS’ EUROPE AND THE CHALLENGES OF SOCIAL ECONOMY
MIGRATION OR EXODUS? NEWCOMERS’ EUROPE AND THE CHALLENGES OF SOCIAL ECONOMY

Summary/Abstract: The wave of migration that has invaded the Mediterranean shore of the European Union in the summer and fall of 2015 has ignited a crisis of unprecedented proportions for Brussels. It questions the very identity of the European civilization, threatening to rekindle xenophobic and racist behaviors already deemed bygone in the “Europe House.”In attempting to understand its inner workings and supply sources, turning to method helps to avoid the excesses and the inappropriate policies for counteracting a phenomenon of such complexity that looks like it will continue throughout the following years. Thus, the use of well-defined concepts from Sociology, Economics and Social Psychology, as well as from culture and geopolitics, is not as much an academic pedantry as it is a cautious way to approach a problem loaded with uncertainties and unknowns. Can social economy be an appropriate – albeit a partial – solution to it?

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