1st Edition

Rethinking Security in the Age of Migration Trust and Emancipation in Europe

By Ali Bilgic Copyright 2013
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Migration and especially irregular migration are politically sensitive and highly debated issues in the developed world, particularly in Europe. This book analyses irregular protection-seeking migration in Europe, with close attention to sub-Saharan migration into the EU, from the perspective of emancipatory security theory. Some individuals leave their countries because political, social,... Read more

Introduction ‘What Were We Meant To Do? Let Them Drown?’: Rethinking Security as Emancipation in the Age Of Migration  1. Irregular Migration as a Common Insecurity  2. A Crisis of Contemporary Forced Migration: Protection-Seeking and Its Irregularization  3. The New Security Dilemma  4. Trust-Learning and Emancipatory Security  5. Europe's Migration Security Dilemma  6. Fatalist Choice: Keep them out!  7. Transcender Choice: Learning Trust for Emancipation  Conclusion ‘What exists is possible?’: Rethinking Security for Common Life in the Age of Migration

Biography

Ali Bilgic is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.