nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/fe4d221a032e71ca DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250604s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/fe4d221a032e71ca doi eng 342 23 Amraoui, Saniya Author aut Othering in EU Law - The Case of Migrants Amraoui, Saniya Verfassungsblog 2025-06-04 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The so-called migrant crisis has been instrumentalized to promote ideas such as “massive invasion” and “the great replacement” – narratives that frame migrants as threats to public security and cultural identity. This rhetoric forms part of a broader phenomenon of othering, in which legal mechanisms are used to exclude and marginalize migrant populations. This text explores how EU migration law actively contributes to this process by reinforcing exclusionary narratives and practices. Drawing on postcolonial scholarship and the concept of borderization, it argues that EU legal frameworks regulate certain groups as undesirable or excessive, echoing colonial patterns of control. These exclusionary dynamics are not merely reflections of societal bias but are structurally embedded in EU law itself. CC BY-SA 4.0 ECJ EU EU Europäische Union migration law (DE-588)10290611-7 gnd EU Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/othering-in-eu-law/ raw object