- 208 pages
- English
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About this book
The act of violence of 9/11 changed the global security agenda, catapulting terrorism to the top of the agenda. Weapons of mass destruction grabbed public interest and controlling the free movement of people became a national security priority. In this volume, Jef Huysmans critically engages with theoretical developments in international relations and security studies to develop a conceptual framework for studying security. He argues that security policies and responses do not appear out of the blue, but are part of a continuous and gradual process, pre-structured by previous developments. He examines this process of securitization and explores how an issue, on the basis of the distribution and administration of fear, becomes a security policy. Huysmans then applies this theory to provide a detailed analysis of migration, asylum and refuge in the European Union. This theoretically sophisticated, yet accessible volume, makes an important contribution to the study of security, migration and European politics.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Series editor’s preface
- Preface
- 1 Politics of insecurity, technology and the political
- 2 Security framing: The question of the meaning of security
- 3 Displacing the spectre of the state in security studies: From referent objects to techniques of government
- 4 Securitizing migration: Freedom from existential threats and the constitution of insecure communities
- 5 European integration and societal insecurity
- 6 Freedom and security in the EU: A Foucaultian view on spill-over
- 7 Migration, securitization and the question of political community in the EU
- 8 De-securitizing migration: Security knowledge and concepts of the political
- 9 Conclusion: The politics of framing insecurity
- Notes
- Bibliography