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Difference and Exclusion: Allergy to the Other Within Europe

Authors

PÉREZ ESPIGARES, PABLO

External publication

No

Means

Utopia Prax. Latinoamericana

Scope

Article

Nature

Científica

JCR Quartile

SJR Quartile

SJR Impact

0.152

Publication date

01/01/2018

ISI

000428716300013

Abstract

Europe's response to the so-called "refugee crisis" has revealed its cracking as a supranational project not only in its monetary and economic dimension, but also in its political and coexistential aspects. The rising of exclusive nationalist approaches, emerging partially as a demagogic response to the neoliberal policies of the European Union, fuels the allergic rejection of the different, and leads to the dehumanizing and self-destructive pathology of xenophobia. Abandoning this perspective entails, in the words of Levinas, "finding the Other without allergy, that is, in justice", recognizing the Other in his/her humanity and treating him/her as his/her dignity demands. Faced with nationalist and neoliberal discourses, the survival of Europe as a project requires articulating a truly hospitable policy in accordance with unavoidable ethical demands.

Keywords

Migrations; refugees; difference; Europe

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