Titley, Gavan
(2012)
Exclusion through Openness?
A Tentative Anatomy of the Ritual
of ‘Migration Debates’.
Collegium : Studies across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 11.
pp. 46-69.
ISSN 1796-2986
Abstract
This article examines ‘migration debates’ in Europe as mediated political rituals. It
argues that the consistent meta-commentary within such debates-never regarded
as sufficiently ‘open’ or ‘honest’ – can be taken as a starting point for exploring
the simultaneous trace and disavowal of race and racializing discourses in public
debate. It examines the disjuncture between the normative expectations of
democratic deliberation and decision-making present in migration debates, and the
ways in which migration stands for the transformation of the political conditions
on which such normative expectations depend. Under these conditions, ‘debate’
must be approached as having ritual forms of value, and these forms of value are
explored in a case study of a short-lived ‘burka debate’ in Ireland in late 2011
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