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What shall now become of us, without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of a solution.

Constantine Kavafi (1904) Waiting for the Barbarians

Integration and exclusion are two sides of the same coin, so the issue here is not that exclusion takes place but how it takes place.

Iver B. Neumann (1999)

The Uses of the Other

'Basic social conflict…has spread through all areas of politics, society, culture and agriculture. Conflict is taking place between the 'European' and 'an (old) Balkan civilisation' that has resulted in division between 'Westerners and 'anti-Westerners'.

Holm Zundhausen (2008) History of Serbia