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The refugee is not a peculiarly European phenomenon; but the European writing of the refugee is. The purpose of this essay is to explore this writing. The idea of the determinative subjective self, determined in relation to the 'other', is the essential philosophical construct of European modernity, triumphed from Descartes to Kant to Heidegger. In the first part of this essay, we will consider in greater depth this particular philosophical heritage. In the second part, we will place it within a particular historical and European framework. The situation of the 'other' cannot be readily distinguished from that of the European polity of nation-states which accompanied the ideology of Enlightenment. In the third and final part, we will consider the extent to which the European Union continues to define itself in relation to the 'other', and does so by means of a particular jurisprudential definition.
Author(s): Ward I
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: International Journal of Refugee Law
Year: 2002
Volume: 14
Issue: 2-3
Pages: 219-237
Print publication date: 01/01/2002
ISSN (print): 0953-8186
ISSN (electronic): 1464-3715
Publisher: Oxford University Press
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/14.2_and_3.219
DOI: 10.1093/ijrl/14.2_and_3.219
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