Book contents
- European Societies, Migration, and the Law
- European Societies, Migration, and the Law
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 European Societies, Migration, and the Law
- Part I Making the ‘Other’ – The Construction of ‘Otherness’
- Part II The Operation of Legal ‘Othering’ and the National–Foreigner Dichotomy in the EU
- Part III After the Arrival of the ‘Others’ – Reactions to the ‘Refugee Crisis’ of 2015
- Part IV ‘Othering’ in the EU
- 14 When a Country Is Not a Home
- 15 The ‘Market Insider’
- 16 Inclusion and Exclusion of Migrant Workers in the EU
- Part V European Societies, ‘Otherness’, Migration, and the Law
- Bibliography
- Index
14 - When a Country Is Not a Home
The Numbered (EU Citizens) ‘Others’ and the Quest for Human Dignity under Brexit
from Part IV - ‘Othering’ in the EU
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 November 2020
- European Societies, Migration, and the Law
- European Societies, Migration, and the Law
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 European Societies, Migration, and the Law
- Part I Making the ‘Other’ – The Construction of ‘Otherness’
- Part II The Operation of Legal ‘Othering’ and the National–Foreigner Dichotomy in the EU
- Part III After the Arrival of the ‘Others’ – Reactions to the ‘Refugee Crisis’ of 2015
- Part IV ‘Othering’ in the EU
- 14 When a Country Is Not a Home
- 15 The ‘Market Insider’
- 16 Inclusion and Exclusion of Migrant Workers in the EU
- Part V European Societies, ‘Otherness’, Migration, and the Law
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
EU citizens living in the United Kingdom and EU citizens-qua-UK nationals living in other Member States following the referendum on the UK’s continued membership of the EU on 23 June 2016 became ‘the numbered’ 'others'. Their identities were redefined overnight not by them, but by state authorities and their co-EU citizens. In this chapter, I trace the process of 'othering' of EU citizens, which had started several years before the referendum in 2016, and unravel the key moments, forces, and strategies that made it possible by utilising a discursive theoretical approach. I argue that the quest for EU citizens’ rights in the UK under Brexit, just like the quest for migrants’ rights, is a quest as much for the realisation of the fundamental status of Union citizenship as for the effectiveness of the principle of respect for human dignity.
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- European Societies, Migration, and the LawThe ‘Others' amongst ‘Us', pp. 267 - 281Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020