Sovereignty in Europe is one of the symptoms of what Mellino—one of the leading scholars of postcolonial issues—calls the "crisis of the Maastricht-Schengen consensus," that is, the exhaustion of the ordoliberal model of governance that laid the foundations for the current material constitution of European territory. The text places the beginning of this "crisis of hegemony" in the rupture of 2008, with the "refugee crisis" of 2015 being the final blow that shattered the last twenty years of European border management.

Since then, the European Union and sovereignty have presented themselves as two different ways of "governing the crisis." However, beyond the differences in tone, management, and economic prescriptions, these two alternatives are linked in that they place at the center of their political proposal the promise of an increasingly exclusionary, selective, racist, and policing administration of the status of modern citizenship. This is the true face of Europe in this moment of crisis and economic stagnation.

Through a review of various authors such as Marx, Sartre, Foucault, Agamben, Fanon, Césaire, Angela Davis, and others, the text proposes a rethinking of the role of racism in the neoliberal governing mechanisms of both the European Union and its national allies, as well as reactionary populisms. This book is a valuable tool for reflection on a possible immigration governance different from the one currently underway in the various countries of the European Union.