Integrasi Regional Eropa Pasca Krisis Pengungsi 2015: Peran Area Schengen dalam Rekonstruksi Identitas Eropa melalui ‘Spatial "Othering”'

This paper departs from the debate on the relevance of functional and neofunctional
motives, such as economics, politics, and mobility, to the EU to maintain
the procurement of the Schengen area in the aftermath of insecurity crisis
caused by the large influx of refugees in 2015. This issue is important because
the Schengen area has been one of the drivers of European regional integration.
Thus, a more thorough analysis is needed in order to clarify other motives underlying
the EU's decision to maintain the procurement of the Schengen Area.
Consequently, the author's analysis yields three major findings to review motives
regarding the issue. First, the author analyses the transition of Schengen's ‘ordering'
forms in the European integration process, from functional to identity-driven
motives. Second, the author analyses the ‘bordering' practices undertaken by the
EU through the Schengen area as an attempt to deconstruct the European rigid
geographical identity into a spatial geopolitical identity thus reinforcing exclusion
of countries non-European. Third, the author analyses the possibility of increasing
degrees of EU inclusiveness as a strategic response to the Schengen crisis.