EU Migration and Asylum Law: Challenging or Reinforcing the Traditional Conception of Sovereignty?

This blogpost provides some reflections on the relationship between EU and the traditional understanding of sovereignty, exploring whether the latter is reproduced or challenged in EU migration and asylum law. It is argued that EU law often (though not always) reproduces the traditional conception of sovereignty when it comes to ‘third-country nationals’, and often (though not always) challenges it when it comes to EU citizens. It is also argued that such discrepancy produces a racialised dynamics.