The Concept of European Identity: Overused and Underspecified?

Latcheva, Rossalina; Datler, Georg; Rossbacher, Eva

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“…This is a reality that cannot be denied. However, this issue can only be adequately studied if the methodological and empirical approach to European identity formation is lifted to a new level enabling a broader understanding of the ontology and epistemology of European identity formation (Latcheva, et al, 2012). Yet, such a comprehensive, comparative and in-depth longitudinal research design allowing to reveal the causal dynamics of European identity formation is currently lacking (Recchi, 2014).…”

Section: Reformulating 'United In Diversity' Beyond the 'Homogeneous ...mentioning

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Rethinking unity in diversity: the potential of European identity in rapidly diversifying societies

Clycq

2020

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

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is research professor in education sciences at the University of Antwerp. He focuses on the issues of diversity, globalization and governance of learning. In the past he held the chair 'European values: discourses and prospects' at the History department and studied issues on European identity and values in the context of diversity and migration. He was senior researcher at the Centre for Migration and Intercultural studies (University of Antwerp) where he studied issues related to identity, ethnicity, migration, multiculturalism, education and the family. In the past decade he (co-)coordinated large-scale interuniversity projects at the national as well as the European level.

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Section: Reformulating 'United In Diversity' Beyond the 'Homogeneous ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking unity in diversity: the potential of European identity in rapidly diversifying societies

Clycq

2020

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

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Caribbean Identity: Myth or Fact?

Robinson

2020

Migration, Social Identities and Regionalism Within the Caribbean Community

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Strategic Cruelty: Legitimizing Violence in the European Union's Border Regime

Sajjad

2022

Global Studies Quarterly

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Violent border practices against irregular migration are not new, although increasing xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiments have drawn greater attention to such practices in recent years. Such measures—both in and at the borders—constitute organized violence on migrant bodies, making them permanently insecure. This is particularly striking in the context of European liberal democracies with its established discourse of human rights, which have since the 1990s consolidated a formidable architecture of deterrence and which have intensified such efforts with the 2015 “migrant crisis” with increasing sea interceptions, restrictive anti-immigrant measures, and the criminalization of solidarity efforts. This article asks: How does the European Union (EU) legitimize violence in its border regime and reconcile this regime with its core identity as a defender of human rights and a “normative superpower”? By drawing on critical discourse analysis and reviewing policy statements, speeches, and press releases, it identifies the discourse topics, discursive strategies, and linguistic means through which EU migration discourse seeks to legitimize its sprawling architecture of strategic cruelty against irregular migration. This article argues that the purpose of the resulting discourse is to “absolve and resolve”—absolving the union as a whole of guilt and resolving the cognitive dissonance between the professed identity of the EU as supremely humanitarian and the observable inhumane acts of itself and its member states. This explains how the EU can employ strategic cruelty to mitigate the arrival of migrants while simultaneously maintaining moral standing to chastise individual members for “violating” the hegemonic collective identity of the union.

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The Concept of European Identity: Overused and Underspecified?

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

Rethinking unity in diversity: the potential of European identity in rapidly diversifying societies

Rethinking unity in diversity: the potential of European identity in rapidly diversifying societies

Caribbean Identity: Myth or Fact?

Strategic Cruelty: Legitimizing Violence in the European Union's Border Regime

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