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  • 18 - The ‘Others’ amongst ‘Us’

  • from Part V - European Societies, ‘Otherness’, Migration, and the Law
  • Edited by Moritz Jesse, Universiteit Leiden
  • Book:
    European Societies, Migration, and the Law
    Published online:
    13 November 2020
    Print publication:
    19 November 2020, pp 356-373

  • Summary

    This chapter brings together the findings of the other chapters and emphasises some common trends that came back repeatedly in the preceding chapters. The chapter starts with the general rigidity and stickiness of legal norms in the area of immigration and asylum. As a result, procedures, implementation, but also interpretation of these norms are changed more often than the norms themselves. On the EU level, the phenomenon called ‘reverse harmonization’, which led to vague legal norms, contributes to the discretion to install procedures on the national level leading to deliberate bureaucratic 'othering'. The chapter also highlights economic and cultural 'othering' as common treads throughout the book. The chapter concludes with some thoughts on what the treatment of the 'other' says about European Societies and what can be done to stop 'othering'.