The politics of alterity and exclusion in the European Union.

Lyons, Carole

Abstract

The notion of the human face of Europe merits evocation after almost 50 years of planned integration. What face does Europe now present or represent? A selective and inaccurate representation of the integrated European might be a white, prosperous and loyal democrat, an image often associated with the EC/EU. But Europe represents many falling outside these simplistic images, not least many non-Europeans who reside there, who are politically and economically excluded from the nouvelle Europe. As Walker has pointed out, it is easier to define what Europe is not, rather than what it is (Walker, 1996), and arguments about integration being exclusive or elitist are not novel. But there is a renewed need to question the exclusiveness of the integration process which resides in its increasingly focused discrimination (de Búrca, 1997).

Citation

LYONS, C. 1998. The politics of alterity and exclusion in the European Union. In Fitzpatrick, P. and Bergeron J.H. (eds.) Europe's other: European law between modernity and postmodernity. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing [online], chapter 8, pages 157-176. Available from: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429444265-9

• Online Publication Date: Jun 17, 2019
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 1998
• Deposit Date: Jul 17, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 17, 2023
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
• Pages: 157-176
• Book Title: Europe's other: European law between modernity and postmodernity
• Chapter Number: 8
• ISBN: 1855218879; 9780367001452
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429444265-9
• Keywords: Citizenship; European Union; European integration
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1695337
• Publisher URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429444265-9