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The politics of insecurity : fear, migration and asylum in the EU / Jef Huysmans.
Van Pelt Library JZ6009.E94 H89 2006
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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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