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The Spiralling of the Securitisation of Migration in the European Union book cover

1st Edition

The Spiralling of the Securitisation of Migration in the European Union

Edited By Valeria Bello, Sarah Léonard Copyright 2023
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge
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This book investigates how migration has been transformed into a security threat in Europe. It argues that this process has taken place through a self-fulfilling spiralling process, which involves different actors and their specific narratives, practices and policies. The book examines how situations stemming from the so-called ‘migration crisis’ in the European Union (EU) have been dealt with by... Read more

1. Introduction— The spiralling of the securitisation of migration in the EU: from the management of a ‘crisis’ to a governance of human mobility?

Valeria Bello

2. From Mobility Partnerships to Migration Compacts: security implications of EU- Jordan relations and the informalization of migration governance

Peter Seeberg and Federica Zardo

3. The ‘refugee crisis’ and its transformative impact on EU- Western Balkans relations

Jonathan Webb

4. People as security risks: the framing of migration in the UK security- development nexus

Eamonn McConnon

5. The EU and migration in the Mediterranean: EU borders’ control by proxy

Stefania Panebianco

6. The securitisation of migration in the European Union: Frontex and its evolving security practices

Sarah Léonard and Christian Kaunert

7. EU border technologies and the co- production of security ‘problems’ and ‘solutions’

Bruno Oliveira Martins and Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert

8. Overcoming borders: the Europeanization of civil society activism in the ‘refugee crisis’

Katharina Crepaz

9. The role of non- state actors’ cognitions in the spiralling of the securitisation of migration: prejudice, narratives and Italian CAS reception centres

Valeria Bello

Biography

Valeria Bello is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Masters programme in Advanced Studies in International Affairs at the Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations, University Ramón Llull, Barcelona, Spain.

Sarah Léonard is Professor of International Security at the University of the West of England, UK.

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