@article{2025:vobruba:schengen_i,
title = {Schengen in the suction of sovereignism},
year = {2025},
note = {This article examines how the Schengen system generates new tensions
between European integration and state sovereignty. Schengen
challenges the traditional concept of sovereignty by transferring
border control to the European level, while simultaneously creating
perceptions of lost national control. These contradictions provide
fertile ground for sovereignist politics, which promise to simplify
complex transnational realities by invoking “the will of the
people” and reinforcing symbolic and material borders. Drawing on
the Hungarian case, the paper shows how populist narratives and
conspiracy thinking transform border politics into a self-reinforcing
dynamic – the “suction of sovereignism” – in which political
efforts to assert control intensify rather than resolve the paradoxes
of European border governance.},
journal = {Culture, Practice & Europeanization},
pages = {85--97},
author = {Vobruba, Georg},
volume = {10},
number = {1}
}