Securitizing Europe, Securitizing Migration, and Populist Contestation

Abstract

Moving both Europe and migration into domains of insecurity, the mechanisms of this move, and the consequences of it. The aim of this panel is to examine the place of security, with its embeddedness in visions of identity and political community, in the problematique of migration in Europe. One possible interest would be the dynamics of (de)securitization itself. Another would be technologies of populism engaged by anti-Europe/ anti-migration political platforms. Yes another interest of this panel would be the negotiation of specific migration related policy areas (e.g. the political economy of welfare migration) in security terms, and in view of the EU. The overall focus is on the technologies of political contestation that positions both Europe and migration into a domain of insecurity.

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