Human Security and Migration in Europe's Southern Borders

ISBN-13: 9783319779461 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 211 str.

Susana Ferreira

Opis

This book examines the management of migratory flows in the Mediterranean within an international security perspective.

Recenzje

"This well-versed book is a combination of in-depth empirical research and existing literature on migration and security which enhances our understanding of migration governance and management in the context of European Union with a special emphasis on Italy and Spain. ... this book is likely to be an important source for policymakers and researchers." (Dr Diotima Chattoraj, Migration Letters, Vol. 16 (2), April, 2019)

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Towards migration governance

2.1 From globalisation to global governance

2.2 Migration management

2.2.1 Steering and controlling migration

2.2.2 From control to multilevel management

2.2.3 Migration governance through international migration regimes

Chapter 3 Challenges to transnational migration

3.1 Transnational challenges to security

3.2 Human security: a people-centred approach

3.3 Securitisation of migration

3.3.1 Migration as a security problem

3.3.2 Securitisation of migration

3.4 Mixed migration and refugees

3.5 Irregular migration and the human security nexus

3.6 Trafficking, smuggling and human rights

Chapter 4 Borders in the age of human mobility

4.1 The deconstruction and reconstruction of borders

4.2 Multilevel border management

4.3 Safeguarding security versus human rights

4.4 Accountability for human rights abuses and violations

Chapter 5 Policies and practices on migration in the EU

5.1 Is immigration a security threat to the EU?

5.2 The political and legal framework

5.2.1 On the construction of a migration policy

5.2.2 The guiding principles

5.2.3 The communitarisation of migration issues

5.2.3.1 Framework for legal migration

5.2.3.2 Asylum system

5.2.3.3 Irregular migration

Chapter 6 EU Border Management: towards an effective control?

6.1 The creation of Fortress Europe through border management

6.2 Integrated Border Management (IBM)

6.3 The institutionalisation of border management: the case of Frontex

6.4 Border surveillance and exchange of information

6.4.1 EU’s technologies of border control and border surveillance

6.4.2 Eurosur

6.4.3 Challenges and legal limitations

6.5 Cooperation: Off-shoring and out-sourcing at the EU’s borders

Chapter 7 Managing migration in the Mediterranean

7.1 International and Cooperation Policies in the Mediterranean area

7.2 Critical moments require emergency actions

7.3 The Mediterranean migration regime

7.4 An overflowing problem without an operative answer

Chapter 8 Narratives on migration: from words to perceptions

8.1 Speaking and writing security

8.2 Official and non-official approaches

8.3 The migration crisis seen by the media

8.4 European leaders’ speech acts

8.5 Public perceptions and opinions

Chapter 9 A Southern Mediterranean migration model

9.1 Irregular flows as a threat to security in the Southern Mediterranean

9.1.1 Spain

9.1.2 Italy

9.2 Is there a Southern Mediterranean migration model?

9.3 National actions

9.4 Surveillance and border control

9.5 Cooperation with third countries and the externalisation process

9.5.1 Spain-Morocco cooperation

9.5.2 Italy-Libya cooperation

Chapter 10 The specificities of the migration model

10.1 Spain: the trap of Ceuta and Melilla?

10.2 Italy: from the Lampedusa crisis to the hotspot approach

10.3 The paradoxes of border management: between security and human rights

Chapter 11 Conclusions

11.1 An approach to migration management in Southern Europe: A proposal

11.2 Final Conclusions 

11.3 The way forward

O autorze

Susana Ferreira is Researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI), NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, and the Research Centre on Security and Defense, Portuguese Military University Institute (CISDIUM).

Blurb

This book examines the management of migratory flows in the Mediterranean within an international security perspective. The intense migratory flows registered during the year 2015 and the tragedies in the Mediterranean Sea have tested the mechanisms of the Union’s immigration and asylum policies and its ability to respond to humanitarian crises. Moreover, these flows of varying intensities and geographies represent a threat to the internal security of the EU and its member states. By using Spain and Italy as case studies, the author theorizes that the EU, given its inability to adopt and implement a common policy to effectively manage migratory flows on its Southern border, uses a deterrence strategy based on minimum common denominators.   

Susana Ferreira is Researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI), NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, and the Research Centre on Security and Defense, Portuguese Military University Institute (CISDIUM).