PANEL 7-B: Colonial inheritances and European integration

This panel wishes to open a refl ection on the relationship between colonial inheritances and the process of European integration. In this sense, we want to examine it in three dimensions: how the relations between the community countries and their former colonies were reformulated; what were the first foreign policies of the European Community as a whole aimed at the former colonized countries and how colonial inheritances would aff ect the set of political life of integrated Europe, in terms of representations, links and topics, and especially in reference to migration, trade and cooperation policies. All papers that contribute to refl ecting on these three dimensions, analyzing ruptures and continuities both at a transnational and community level, will be well received, as in the diff erent European countries, as finally also, in comparative perspective.