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The politics of insecurity : fear, migration and asylum in the EU / Jef Huysmans.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Huysmans, Jef.
Series:
New international relations
The new international relations
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Security, International--European Union countries.
Security, International.
European Union countries.
European Union countries--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
Emigration and immigration.
Government policy.
National security--European Union countries.
National security.
Asylum, Right of--European Union countries.
Asylum, Right of.
Physical Description:
xiv, 191 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Contents:
1 Politics of insecurity, technology and the political 1
Modulating domains of insecurity 2
Security practice as technique of government 6
Insecurity and the political 10
2 Security framing: The question of the meaning of security 15
Identity crisis in the field of security knowledge 16
Widening security: Stakes in a contest of concept definition 19
Security framing 22
Security knowledge and the politics of framing insecurity 26
3 Displacing the spectre of the state in security studies: From referent objects to techniques of government 30
Political significance of security framing 31
The spectre of the state 33
Challenging the state, changing referent objects 35
From referent objects to techniques of government 38
4 Securitizing migration: Freedom from existential threats and the constitution of insecure communities 45
Existential politics: The constitution of insecure political autonomy and unity 47
Distributing fear and trust 51
Administering inclusion and exclusion 54
Structuring alienation and predispositions towards violence 57
5 European integration and societal insecurity 63
European migration policy 65
The securitization of migration 67
Internal security 69
Cultural identity 72
Welfare 77
Re-visiting the notion of societal securitization 80
6 Freedom and security in the EU: A Foucaultian view on spill-over 85
Functionalist understanding of the spill-over 87
Politicizing deep structures: The question of securitization 89
Embedding discursive structures: Technologies of government 91
Border control and the externalization of excess 95
Governmental rationalities: Security and the optimal conduct of freedom 97
The construction of insecurity: Modulating relations between freedom and security 102
7 Migration, securitization and the question of political community in the EU 105
Migration and political identity 106
The political crisis of Europe 109
Migration, multiculturalism, and post-national Europe 114
Politicizing or de-politicizing migration in the European Union? 119
Back to securitization 122
8 De-securitizing migration: Security knowledge and concepts of the political 124
De-securitization 125
Friend/enemy and the political 127
Schmittean political rationality 130
Security knowledge and de-securitization 141
9 Conclusion: The politics of framing insecurity 145
Insecurity 145
Politics 153
Knowledge 155.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [160]-183) and index.
ISBN:
0415361249
0415361257
OCLC:
61151548
Publisher Number:
9780415361248 (hbk.)
9780415361255 (pbk.)

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