ABSTRACT
Like the citizen of the 18th century and the proletarian worker of the 19th century, the migrant is the face of the contemporary political subject, which allows us to simultaneously formulate a new political project and to rethink the political, the two going hand in hand. Beyond the social drama of migration in Europe and the necessity of taking steps to welcome migrants based on the principles of solidarity and hospitality, it is important to understand the contemporary experience of exile as an opportunity to conceptualize belonging outside of territory, and to define community outside of identitarian interests. In order to recover its former legitimacy, Europe needs a new collective imaginary for democracy, and that is what the migrant has to offer.
