The “European Refugee Crisis” as the Crisis of Liberal Tolerance: Three Modalities of Liberal Exclusion

This article examines European residential responses to migrations after 2015. The literature meticulously analyzes their historically-contextually changing variances and inner diversities while imposing a binary view: the anti-immigration response is the negation, and the solidarity response is the...

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Main Author: Hande Sözer
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Language:English
Published: Rasim Özgür Dönmez 2022-06-01
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description This article examines European residential responses to migrations after 2015. The literature meticulously analyzes their historically-contextually changing variances and inner diversities while imposing a binary view: the anti-immigration response is the negation, and the solidarity response is the affirmation of liberal tolerance. Contrarily, I argue that both responses utilize the liberal tolerance idea and its operational principles. First, they border the European Self and the migrant Other; re-border “the intolerable” and “the tolerable” migrant; and then exclude the former while only partially including the latter. Refugees’ inclusion and exclusion are seen either as a zero-sum (i.e., they are either included or excluded) or a dialectical state (i.e., the inclusion of some means the exclusion of others), but I claim that even the most inclusive responses are excluding the very subjects they claim to include. Inclusion is partial, while exclusion is constant. Thus, I discuss the migrants’ permanent yet differential exclusions in three modalities of liberal tolerance: Liberal intolerance, differentiating tolerance, and indifferent tolerance.
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spelling doaj-art-3aca3c43adcf400d992b6ec59787ca962025-08-20T03:55:40ZengRasim Özgür DönmezAlternatif Politika1309-05932022-06-0114222926210.53376/ap.2022.082306The “European Refugee Crisis” as the Crisis of Liberal Tolerance: Three Modalities of Liberal ExclusionHande Sözer0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7288-5192MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, METU NORTHERN CYPRUS CAMPUS (NTRC - GÜZELYURT), DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSThis article examines European residential responses to migrations after 2015. The literature meticulously analyzes their historically-contextually changing variances and inner diversities while imposing a binary view: the anti-immigration response is the negation, and the solidarity response is the affirmation of liberal tolerance. Contrarily, I argue that both responses utilize the liberal tolerance idea and its operational principles. First, they border the European Self and the migrant Other; re-border “the intolerable” and “the tolerable” migrant; and then exclude the former while only partially including the latter. Refugees’ inclusion and exclusion are seen either as a zero-sum (i.e., they are either included or excluded) or a dialectical state (i.e., the inclusion of some means the exclusion of others), but I claim that even the most inclusive responses are excluding the very subjects they claim to include. Inclusion is partial, while exclusion is constant. Thus, I discuss the migrants’ permanent yet differential exclusions in three modalities of liberal tolerance: Liberal intolerance, differentiating tolerance, and indifferent tolerance.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/2460884"avrupa mülteci krizi"liberal tahammülliberal tahammülsüzlükayırt eden tahammülkayıtsız tahammül“european refugee crisis”liberal toleranceliberal intoleranceindifferent tolerancedifferentiating tolerance
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The “European Refugee Crisis” as the Crisis of Liberal Tolerance: Three Modalities of Liberal Exclusion
Alternatif Politika
"avrupa mülteci krizi"
liberal tahammül
liberal tahammülsüzlük
ayırt eden tahammül
kayıtsız tahammül
“european refugee crisis”
liberal tolerance
liberal intolerance
indifferent tolerance
differentiating tolerance
title The “European Refugee Crisis” as the Crisis of Liberal Tolerance: Three Modalities of Liberal Exclusion
title_full The “European Refugee Crisis” as the Crisis of Liberal Tolerance: Three Modalities of Liberal Exclusion
title_fullStr The “European Refugee Crisis” as the Crisis of Liberal Tolerance: Three Modalities of Liberal Exclusion
title_full_unstemmed The “European Refugee Crisis” as the Crisis of Liberal Tolerance: Three Modalities of Liberal Exclusion
title_short The “European Refugee Crisis” as the Crisis of Liberal Tolerance: Three Modalities of Liberal Exclusion
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topic "avrupa mülteci krizi"
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liberal tahammülsüzlük
ayırt eden tahammül
kayıtsız tahammül
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liberal tolerance
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differentiating tolerance
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