The Securitisation of Migration in the Eu ― Debates Since 9/11

Since 9/11 Western states have sought to integrate 'securitisation' measures within migration regimes as asylum seekers and other migrant categories come to be seen as agents of social instability or as potential terrorists seeking to exploit immigration systems. But the upshot of treating migration as a security threat is the increased insecurity amongst migrant and ethnic minority populations in the West and particularly among those from Muslim majority countries or long-settled Muslim communities. This study of migration and security therefore considers whether national-societal or human-centric perspectives should be adopted, and whether the divergent and competing approaches to security (national, societal, human) can or should ever be reconciled. The questions arising from this dilemma are important for academics, policy-makers and the general public.

Gabriella Lazaridis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations, at the University of Leicester, UK. She is well known for her research on ethnicity, migration, citizenship and gender and has published extensively in these fields.

Khursheed Wadia is Principal Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK, and Overseas Research Fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologique), Paris, France. She has written on aspects of gender, ethnicity, politics and policy.