Book Review: Europe: The Worlds of European Constitutionalism
| DOI | 10.1111/1478-9302.12016_108 |
| Published date | 01 May 2013 |
| Date | 01 May 2013 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
E U R O P E
theories on migration and conflict where the author
the nature of European Union law; and (2) the nature
explains her conceptualisation of immigrant–native and
of the European Union as a political community. The
immigrant–state conflict. This is followed by Part II,
chapters by De Witte, Halberstam and Krisch deal
where patterns of immigrant conflict in Great Britain
mainly with the nature of European Union law. De
are described. The dynamics of racist violence are por-
Witte updates with great legal finesse the case for
trayed in the next part. All this sets the scene for the
considering EU law as an experimental kind of public
exploration of data on racist violence in Greater Lon-
international law. Halberstam revisits pluralistic consti-
don’s 32 boroughs, proving that the immigration of
tutional theory, which couples the characterisation of
politically powerful South Asian migrants reinforces
Union law as a constitutional order with a non-
violent attacks towards them. In contrast, the migrants
hierarchical and dialogical understanding of the rela-
from Africa and the Caribbean, who are far less politi-
tionship between the supranational, the national and
cally powerful, are not subjects of such attacks. The
the regional legal orders. Krisch takes pluralistic con-
author demonstrates that this is due to the differences
stitutional theory a step forward by considering it as
in economic conditions between the neighbourhoods.
the key tool to reconstruct the manifold constitutional
In the next section she argues that the racist violence
orders in the post-national constellation he alleges we
against migrants is not only a product of immigrant–
now inhabit.
native conflict but that it is part of the bigger ‘fabric of
In his turn, Walker largely dwells on the polity ques-
such conflict’...
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