Identifying Security Logics in the Eu Policy Discourse: The Migration Crisis and the Eu

ISBN-13: 9783030930370 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 218 str.

Maciej Stępka

Spis treści

Introduction

1.     Securitization as the work of framing. Towards a new framework of analysis

1.1.  Securitization theory and its criticism

1.2.  Moving forwards with securitization theory

1.3.  Security logics and securitization

1.4.  Methods and sources

2.     Before the “migration crisis”. Migration-security continuum in the EU

2.1.  From Maastricht to Lisbon. Tracing “constitutional” securitizing moves in the EU

2.2.  Building “Fortress Europe”

2.3.  Illegal migrants and bogus asylum seekers

2.4.  Reception and returns

3.     Framing diagnosis and evaluation of the “migration crisis” on the EU level

3.1.  Humanitarianization of increased migratory flows

3.2.  Migrants as a risk and managerial problem

4.     Framing conceptualization of remedial actions towards the “migration crisis” on the EU level

4.1.  The need of management and control

4.2.  Increasing security through resilience

4.3.  Mobilizing extraordinary measures

Concluding remarks. Revisiting patterns of securitization and security logics

 

O autorze

Maciej Stępka is an Assistant Professor working in the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, where he teaches courses on EU Institutions and Decision-Making Processes, European Integration Theories, EU Common Policies, Security Theory and European Security. He received his PhD in Security Studies with specialisation in International Relations from University of Warsaw. He also holds Masters degrees in Political Science (University of Amsterdam) and European Studies (Jagiellonian University in Kraków). Maciej’s research interests revolve around critical security and policy studies, including securitisation theory, Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, security logics and theories of risk. His most recent work concentrates on investigating spaces of security, security practices and technologies in the Polish immigrant detention centres.

Blurb

This open access book investigates the complexity and the modalities of securitization of migration and border control at the EU level. It discusses and compares how different EU institutions and agencies have been deploying different logics of security, e.g. humanitarianism or management of risk, while framing increased migratory flows and so called migration crisis as a security problem. The book argues that the (re)development of EU migration and border control policies in response to increased migratory flows of 2015 have revealed an increasingly tangled nature of securitization of migration in the EU. This is reflected in the intertwining of security logics where migrants and human mobility tend to be securitized through different, sometimes multiple, interpretative lenses at different stages of policy framing. From a theoretical point of view, the book develops a fresh analytical perspective that further contributes to burgeoning discussion on securitization theory. By bridging the literature on policy framing and securitization it makes a significant contribution to the debates on both securitization and migration. As such this book is of great interest to students, academics, policy makers and all those working in the fields of EU politics, migration, security, and international relations.