Free Movement Regimes (FMRs) have become integral to global migration law. However, no commonly accepted definition exists, and relatively limited critical analysis has been advanced on their implications. To fill this gap, based on an empirical description of their growth over time and space, we advance the first definition of FMRs that captures their differentia specifica. On this ground, we question how FMRs are reshaping migration and with which implications. Our claim is that FMRs not only provide great existential chances to individuals but also impose a transformation on them that is qualitatively different from classic migration dynamics. FMRs, thus, engender profound consequences that are not just incidental but rather structural to their very nature. Namely, FMRs are contributing to the creation of a new anthropological figure whose socio-political effects on national, international, and global polities are yet to be properly explored: the ‘New Migrant’.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Jacopo Martire’s main area of research is in legal and political theory with a specific focus on a reconstruction of the fundamental ideological structures of modern law in the light of Michel Foucault’s theories. Currently, Dr. Martire is also developing his research in three directions. First, he is exploring the question of the “Other” in its politico-philosophical declension, and in particular in relation to EU law. Second, he is examining the ‘underbellly of law’ by investigating the aporias and paradoxes of the modern legal discourse through the medium of cinema and literature. Third, he is analysing the interrelation between law and new forms of technoregulation, scrutinising how technological advancements (especially in the field of automation and algorithmic governance) challenge the classical legal model of ‘command and control’ and the legal-political assumptions linked to it.