Othering in EU Law - The Case of Migrants Amraoui, Saniya Author aut Text xx# 2025 Verfassungsblog 2025-06-04 eng
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 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 Amraoui, Saniya ECJ EU EU Europäische Union migration law EU 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/othering-in-eu-law/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/fe4d221a032e71ca 250604 10.59704/fe4d221a032e71ca Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)