Migrants, refugees, asylum seekers – these are “the Others“ arriving in a new, often unknown and hostile destination. Even if the place of arrival (or residence) is an otherwise democratic, fully rights-protective European state, “the Others“ encounter often not merely social hostility but also severe restrictions in adhesion policy, expulsions rules and other practices of rejection. However, state laws and policies of exclusion are targeting not only migrants as the external “Others“ but also citizens belonging to various minorities. Roma minority constitutes particular example of such processes of othering in the EU. The stigmatization, embedded deeply in the very roots of xenophobic attitudes, serves as a marker of treatment of “the Others“ which is demonstrated also in legal regulations. This panel seeks to demonstrate tendencies, mechanisms and consequences of the state-orchestrated policies and laws amounting to the categories of “governmental xenophobia“ and crimmigration.