Abstract
This book addresses the hidden dynamics of race within the European Union. Brexit supporters' frequent targeting of European Union (EU) movers, especially those from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), has been popularly assumed as at odds with the EU project's foundations based on the ideals of equality and inclusion. This book dispels that notion. By interrogating the history, wording, omissions, assumptions, and applications of laws, as well as policies, and discourses pertinent to mobility and equality, the argument developed throughout the book is that the parameters of CEE nationals' status within the EU have been closely circumscribed, in line with the entrenched historical positioning of the west as superior to the east. Engaging current legal, economic, political, and moral issues-against the backdrop of Brexit and contestations over EU integration and globalisation-this work opens avenues of thought to better understand the law's role in producing and sustaining social stratifications. Europe is a postcolonial space, as this book demonstrates. By addressing fractures within the construct of whiteness that are based on ethnicity, class, and migrant status, the book also provides a theoretically nuanced and politically useful understanding of contemporary European racisms.