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The Politics of Insecurity: Fear, Migration and Asylum in the EU

The Politics of Insecurity: Fear, Migration and Asylum in the EU

Huysmans, Jef

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Series: New International Relations

General Political ScienceImmigration & RefugeesInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0415361257
ISBN13: 9780415361255
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 1 2006
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.18
Language: English

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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