(Eurotoday) – On January 26, 2025, cameras along the coast of Tenerife recorded a rare sighting of the Sea Devil, a deep-sea anglerfish usually found 200 to 2,000 meters underwater. Its appearance in shallower waters surprised scientists, prompting them to investigate possible environmental changes and shifts in marine ecosystems.
The strange behavior of the Sea Devil mirrors human migration. Just as sea creatures leave their familiar habitats, people are risking dangerous ocean voyages to reach Europe because of environmental changes, financial struggles, and political issues. These migration patterns reveal how nature and human movement are linked in our rapidly changing and diverse world.
Diversity
The Latin and late Latin meanings of diversity or ‘Diversitatem’ are disagreement, difference, shifting from the course, and dissent. And today more than ever, diversity is popular and omnipresent but more frequently used in politics and is almost wholly intertwined with the spheres of intersectionality.
The contemporary adjustments to conceptualization on a discursive scale made ‘diversity’ stunningly attractive to the public and different organizations due to the obtained positive meaning.
Giving birth to alienated groups, nations confront multifaceted problems represented at individual as well as organizational and institutional levels. The latter is important to critical management scholars for organizations and specifically universities to oversee the development of diversity in specific environments.
However, diversity too can fail if it is misapplied and carelessly applied by the officers and practitioners in the field. For example, the lack of capacity of practitioners to construct an adequate image using data is deadly as it further detaches diversity off equality and other terms and, in addition, passes up the chance of maintaining proximity to institutional histories of struggle.
The above partially explains the popularity of diversity in European policy discourses, but to properly cover the question of popularity one should return to the history of race and ‘others’ and its consequences.
Concretely, in the 1950s-60s, there were four declarations signed through the mediation of UNESCO that helped to renounce race as an analytical instrument in academia. Nonetheless, continental European scholars were inclined to the category of ‘racial skepticism,’ which does not justify the existence of races.
Discourse and policy-framing
After the implementation of the Racial Equality Directive (RED), which was transposed into national law in 15 member states in 2013 (MEMO/07/257 2007), there were cases of implementation seen. The later results were positive, for instance, in addressing legal issues, but it was not enough in social and discourse dimensions.
Following the failure of political unification through the European Defense Community, it was decided to revive and popularize the discussion of culture and values for efficient management of shared resources, soon fully embracing liberal democracy. This argument for the popularity of diversity in EU policies is one argument.
Left-leaning philosophy was integrated by Critical Race Theory into racial discourse and vice versa. Accordingly, it is plausible to conclude that attempts to address race through left-leaning discourses are essential in shaping 21st-century man’s current way of living.
Immigrant integration policy can be considered an ‘EU policy field’ simply because of the signed and introduced treaties, agreements, directives, and communications. Their origins, names, and wordings point to the overarching influence of immigrant integration in EU politics.
A few examples of the above-mentioned are the Lisbon Treaty, Communication on immigration integration and employment, Directive on the status of third-country nationals, Common Basic Principles for Immigrant Integration Policy, A Common Agenda on Integration, Zaragoza Declaration on Integration, Action Plan on the Integration of third-country nationals, and so forth.
French historian of ideas and philosopher Michel Foucault said:
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