This paper provides an analysis of the legal and policy foundations of the different approaches adopted by the European Union (EU) in relation to the 2015/2016 and 2022 refugee “crises”. Its main objective is to show how a risk-based biopolitical framework can bridge the gap between EU institutional narratives and the critique of Europe’s racialised governance schemes. The two “crises” have been largely shaped by a perceived need to manage risk, yet this has produced very different institutional responses, in ways that concealed their racialised dimension. Analysing how risk has been understood in the two contexts, the paper shows how their legal and policy foundations (re-)produce a racialised differential scheme. Amidst ongoing debates on reforming EU migration and asylum law, the paper also shows how the current proposals further consolidate this scheme.

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欧洲难民“危机”和风险生物政治

本文分析了欧盟 (EU) 针对 2015/2016 和 2022 年难民“危机”采取的不同做法的法律和政策基础。其主要目标是展示基于风险的生命政治框架如何弥合欧盟制度叙述与对欧洲种族化治理计划的批评之间的差距。这两场“危机”很大程度上是由于人们认为需要管理风险，但这却产生了截然不同的机构反应，其方式掩盖了其种族化的维度。本文分析了在这两种背景下如何理解风险，展示了它们的法律和政策基础如何（重新）产生种族化的差别计划。在关于改革欧盟移民和庇护法的持续辩论中，