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.
List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on contributors INTRODUCTION PART I: SECURITISATION OF MIGRATION 1. The Securitisation of Migration: an Absent Presence?; Vicki Squire 2. The Securitisation of European Migration Policies: Perceptions of Threat and Management of Risk; Lena Karamanidou 3. Migrants in the Realm of Experts: the Migration-crime-terrorist Nexus after 9/11; Mark Maguire PART II: SECURITISATION AND ITS IMPACT ON MIGRANT AND ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITIES 4. Regimes of Insecurity: Women and Immigration Detention in Europe; Khursheed Wadia 5. Impact and Insecurity: the Securitisation of State Relations with British Muslim Communities; Laura Zahra McDonald 6. The Securitisation of Disadvantaged Communities: the Case of British-Somalis; Don Flynn and Awale Olad PART III: POPULIST RESPONSES TO SECURITISATION AND MIGRATION IN A CRISIS EUROPE 7. The Rise of Italian Populism and 'Fascism of the 3rd Millenium' in the Age of Migration and Security; Emanuele Toscano 8. Identitarian Populism: Securitisation of Migration and the Far Right in Times of Economic Crisis in Greece and the UK; Gabriella Lazaridis and Anna Maria Konsta 9. Securitisation of Migration and Far Right Populist 'othering' in Scandinavian Countries; Gabriella Lazaridis and Vasiliki Tsagkroni Index
