Managing Diversity in the EU: From 9/11 to Charlie Hebdo
Managing Diversity in the EU: From 9/11 to Charlie Hebdo

Author(s): Ayhan Kaya
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: Diversity; Cultural Diversity; Migration; EU; EU Development
Summary/Abstract: This paper will discuss the transformation of the ways in which the European States have responded to the challenges posed by September 11, Breivik massacre in 2011 and Charlie Hebdo Massacre in 2015. The main premise of the paper is that Charlie Hebdo massacre has recently displayed that major European states such as France and Germany have changed the ways in which they used to frame migration, diversity and Islam. In the aftermath of the September 11, while the EU states preferred to externalize the causes of the structural problems of unemployment, poverty, racism and exclusion by securitizing, stigmatizing, politicizing, culturalizing, religionizing migration and integration issues, they have recently preferred to frame such issues as their own internal problems due to the high cost of the former way of framing the reality and to the detrimental effects of the financial crisis hitting the European space. I assume that such a discursive shift performed by the leading states of the EU is very promising in the sense that the culturalization of what is social, economic and political is likely to come to an end in the EU.

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